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The Monk of Mokha, 7 Audio-CD

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A gripping, triumphant adventure (Los Angeles Times) from bestselling author Dave Eggers, the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana a by civil war.


Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen s central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral homeland to tour terraced farms high in the country s rugged mountains and meet beleaguered but determined farmers. But when war engulfs the country and Saudi bombs rain down, Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen without sacrificing his dreams or abandoning his people.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
18. Januar 2018
Sprache
englisch
Autor/Autorin
Dave Eggers
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
CD
Gewicht
212 g
Größe (L/B/H)
152/128/25 mm
GTIN
9780735205772

Portrait

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers grew up near Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder of McSweeney s, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney s publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. In 2002, he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco s Mission District. Sister centers have since opened in seven other American cities under the umbrella of 826 National, and like-minded centers have opened in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Birmingham, Alabama, among other locations. Eggers's work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France s Prix Médicis, Germany s Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family. His novels include The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and Heroes of the Frontier.

Dion Graham, from HBO s The Wire, also narrates The First 48 on A&E. A multiple Audie Award winning and critically acclaimed actor and narrator, he has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series.

Pressestimmen

Exquisitely interesting This is about the human capacity to dream here, there, everywhere. Gabriel Thompson, San Francisco Chronicle
 
A cracking tale of intrigue and bravery A gripping, triumphant adventure story. Paul Constant, Los Angeles Times

"I wish someone had asked me to blurb The Monk of Mokha so I could have said, 'I couldn t put it down,' because I couldn t put it down."  Ann Patchett, Parnassas Bookstore blog
 
A true account of a scrappy underdog, told in a lively, accessible style... Absolutely as gripping and cinematically dramatic as any fictional cliffhanger. Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post

Remarkable offers hope in the age of Trump Ends as a kind of breathless thriller as Mokhtar braves militia roadblocks, kidnappings and multiple mortal dangers. Tim Adams, The Guardian
 
A heady brew Plainspoken but gripping Dives deep into a crisis but delivers a jolt of uplift as well. Mark Athitakis, USA Today
 

"A vibrant depiction of courage and passion, interwoven with a detailed history of Yemeni coffee and a timely exploration of Muslim American identity."  David Canfield, Entertainment Weekly

The Monk of Mokha is not merely about coming to America, it is a thrilling chronicle of one man s coming-and-going between two beloved homelands a brilliant mirror on the global community we have become.   Marie Arana, author of American Chica and Bolivar: American Liberator

This American coming of age story reminds us all of how much our country is enriched by all who call it home.   Dalia Mogahed, author of Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
 
Here s a story for our time: filled with ethos and pathos. You ll laugh, cry, and discover worlds unknown to most. From scamming in the Tenderloin to dodging bombs in Yemen, Mokhtar and Eggers take us on a worthwhile ride through the postmodern topography of our times.   Hamza Hanson Yusuf

Like many great works, Eggers book is multifaceted. It combines, in a single moving narrative, history, politics, biography, psychology, adventure, drama, despair, hope, triumph and the irrepressible, indomitable nature of the human spirit at its best.   Imam Zaid Shakir
 
In telling Mokhtar s story with such clarity, honesty, and humor, Eggers allows readers to consider Yemen and Yemenis long invisible, side-lined, or maligned in the American imagination in their wonderful and complicated fullness.   Alia Malek, author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria  and A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories 

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