Books and Coffee
Have you ever thought about how many books have the word “coffee” in it?
Artists and writers love this drink as much as we do and they can’t do without it even in their novels.
In this article we will discover together books that involve coffee
Tamini, Women’s coffee
Coffee is one of the most important things in Qamar’s life, a young woman living on the verge between two different countries and cultures. In the novel coffee represents a sort of “mirror” in which she can see the personalities of the women gravitating in her life but also of the intensity and “flavor” she wants to give to her own life. Widad Tamini hopes that this book which is her first one will make people from different cultures feel curiosity and a wish for peace and that these things will help them start a dialogue.
Patric Modiano, IIn the Cafe of Lost Youth
Paris in the Sixties . Many young students, cursed poets and mysterious patrons gather at “ Café Conda” in the Latin neighborhood. Their stories attract the mysterious Louki , a fifteen years old girl who seems to be older than she is and who attracts men very much. Through the images of coffee and its flavor Patrick Modiano recreates Paris as he knew it in his youth around the moving and fascinating character of Louki and using his unmistakable style he writes a spell-binding novel about the power of memory and the search of identity.
Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café
The café is the small shop of Miss Amelia ,an eccentric lady who is more than 6 feet tall. An intense love story takes place inside the café . Although it was first published in 1951 this novella keeps attracting readers, both for the characters’ deep emotional intensity and for the way in which this novella portrays love and all its nuances.
Diego Galdino, First morning coffee
Massimo is a little older than thirty years old. He owns a café in the center of Rome and he doesn’t know what it’s like to really fall in love with someone. Every morning at dawn he gets to the café while the city still sleeps and you can smell fresh bread. When he will get to the cafe he will drink his first cup of coffee for the day. The one with the best and most intense flavor. In his cafe he will meet a green-eyed girl with freckles on her face. She has a foreign accent and the lost expression that foreign tourists have. Something very important will happen.
Diego De Silva, To miss each other
A café or more precisely a bistrot is the background to the story between Nicola and Irene. They are both escaping from past relationships with their partners . Nicola and Irene are very like-minded. If only they knew about it and meet each other in the café. A short novel which is above all a short and intense portrait of love, of that something which always brings us back to the beginning that helps us and protects us when the longing for something finally becomes owning it.
After this excursus on novels and books about coffee, we can only read some of them, savoring and sipping this delicious beverage in the meantime.
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