The Monk of Mokha

Dave Eggers, Dion Graham

eAudio - 2018

From the bestselling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the 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 grew up in San Francisco, one of seven siblings brought up by Yemeni immigrants in a tiny apartment. At age twenty-four, unable to pay for college, he works as a doorman, until a statue of an Arab raising a cup of coffee awakens something in him. He sets out to learn the rich history of coffee in Yemen and the complex art of tasting and identifying varietals. He travels to Yemen and visits countless farms, collecting samples, eager to bring improved cultivation methods to the... countryside. And he is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs Yemen in 2015. The US Embassy closes, Saudi bombs began to rain down on the country, and Mokhtar is trapped in Yemen. Desperate to...

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Language
English
Main Authors
Dave Eggers, Dion Graham
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size239 GB
Parts7
ISBN9780735205802
Release Date1/30/2018
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size239 GB
ISBN9780735205802
Release Date1/30/2018