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THE VARIOUS FLAVORS OF COFFEE
By: Anthony Capella
Bantam
September 2008
On Sale: August 26, 2008
560 pages
ISBN: 0553807323
EAN: 9780553807325
Hardcover
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Wedding Officer comes a novel whose stunning blend of exotic adventure and erotic passion will intoxicate every reader who tastes of its remarkable delights.
When a woman gives a man coffee, it is a way of showing her desire.
βAbyssinian proverb
It was a cup of coffee that changed Robert Wallisβs lifeβand a cup of very bad coffee at that. The impoverished poet is sitting in a London coffeehouse contemplating an uncertain future when he meets Samuel Pinker. The owner of Castle Coffee offers Wallace the very last thing a struggling young artiste in fin de siΓ¨cle England could possibly want: a job.
But the job Wallis acceptsβemploying his palate and talent for words to compose a βvocabulary of coffeeβ based on its many subtle and elusive flavorsβis only the beginning of an extraordinary adventure in which Wallis will experience the dizzying heights of desire and the excruciating pain of loss. As Wallis finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his coworker, Pinkerβs spirited suffragette daughter Emily, both will discover that you cannot awaken one set of senses without affecting all the others.
Their love is tested when Wallis is dispatched on a journey to North Africa in search of the legendary Arab mocca. As he travels to coffeeβs fabled birthplaceβand learns the fiercely guarded secrets of the tradeβWallis meets Fikre, the defiant, seductive slave of a powerful coffee merchant, who serves him in the traditional Abyssinian coffee ceremony. And when Fikre dares to slip Wallis a single coffee bean, the mysteries of coffee and forbidden passion intermingleβ¦and combine to change history and fate.
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