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The Monk of Mokha

The Monk of Mokha

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BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Q: Mokhtar, you still operate your company, Port of Mokha coffee, which continues to import coffee beans from war-torn Yemen. Monk of Mokha is 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. He discovers while working as a door attendant in a large residential building that Yemen was a major exporter of coffee beans for centuries and had a monopoly over coffee trade through the port of Mokha.

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Mokhtar Alkhanshali, far right, makes coffee for farmers in Yemen, many of whom had never tasted their own beans brewed.She won the prize in 2011, sharing it with two other women: Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Mrs.

How Dave Eggers Lost His Way | The New Republic

For 150 years, starting in the 16th century, Yemen was the exclusive coffee supplier to the entire world.

The latter half of the novel has him racing to escape the war and make it back to a coffee conference. DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books, among them The Circle—the companion to the book you are holding—and also The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain.

The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers | Goodreads The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers | Goodreads

What does the upheaval in Yemen have to do with the Western geopolitics of modern times, including the post–September 11 invasion of Iraq? Alkhanshali’s efforts paid off, with his Yemeni coffee receiving some of the highest ratings of the SCA conference, garnering support from roasters like Blue Bottle. I wish someone had asked me to blurb The Monk of Mokhaso I could have said, ‘I couldn’t put it down,’ because I couldn’t put it down.The US Embassy closes, Saudi bombs began to rain down on the country, and Mokhtar is trapped in Yemen. Mokhtar, in spite of his rise from rags to riches, is not really character, protagonist, or subject in Eggers’s book. However, as it goes on, as Eggers explodes Mokhtar’s tale to book length, with all the detail that implies, you start to understand his wider purpose. This is exacerbated by the lack of affect in almost everything Mokhtar and the other characters think or say or do, as expressed through short sentences that go subject-verb-object no matter who or what is being depicted. This must explain what comes across as his Muslim fetish, with his constant references to tropes of an obvious kind, including the hijab, nonalcoholic drinks, praying, and references to Allah.



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