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- catalog abstract "Safe from the fierce Caribbean sun, a young boy sits on the verandah of his grandmother's house in Petit Goave, Haiti. But this is not just any porch, and Petit-Goave is not just any provincial village, and his grandmother Da is not just any woman. The porch is the center of village life, and an excellent place from which to watch the world and its strange and wonderful workings. His grandmother Da, the grand matriarch of the town, is part priestess, part philosopher, dispensing wisdom and cups of black burning coffee as the world revolves around her. And what a world passes by. There are pipe-smoking peasant women, coming to market, young beauties in silk dresses, three-legged dogs, the ghosts of the dear departed, and a kaleidoscope of other characters all better than life, including a mad bride, a lottery salesman selling magic tickets, voodoo doctor Baron Samedi, impeccably dressed in a top hat, and Legype, whose left forearm was bitten off by a dogfish. For this young man, his tenth summer is one that will teach him the wisdom of life and the mysteries of death. Written with sensuality, tenderness, humor and magic, An Aroma of Coffee reaveals another side of Laferriere, the man and the author.".
- catalog alternative "Odeur du café. English".
- catalog contributor b5344878.
- catalog contributor b5344879.
- catalog coverage "Haiti Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "And what a world passes by. There are pipe-smoking peasant women, coming to market, young beauties in silk dresses, three-legged dogs, the ghosts of the dear departed, and a kaleidoscope of other characters all better than life, including a mad bride, a lottery salesman selling magic tickets, voodoo doctor Baron Samedi, impeccably dressed in a top hat, and Legype, whose left forearm was bitten off by a dogfish.".
- catalog description "For this young man, his tenth summer is one that will teach him the wisdom of life and the mysteries of death. Written with sensuality, tenderness, humor and magic, An Aroma of Coffee reaveals another side of Laferriere, the man and the author.".
- catalog description "His grandmother Da, the grand matriarch of the town, is part priestess, part philosopher, dispensing wisdom and cups of black burning coffee as the world revolves around her.".
- catalog description "Safe from the fierce Caribbean sun, a young boy sits on the verandah of his grandmother's house in Petit Goave, Haiti. But this is not just any porch, and Petit-Goave is not just any provincial village, and his grandmother Da is not just any woman. The porch is the center of village life, and an excellent place from which to watch the world and its strange and wonderful workings.".
- catalog extent "171 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Aroma of coffee.".
- catalog identifier "0889104395 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Aroma of coffee.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto : Coach House Press,".
- catalog relation "Aroma of coffee.".
- catalog spatial "Haiti Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Haiti".
- catalog subject "C843/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Country life Haiti Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PQ3919.2.L163 O3413 1993".
- catalog subject "PS8573.A348 O3313 1993".
- catalog title "An aroma of coffee / Dany Laferrière ; translated by David Homel.".
- catalog title "Odeur du café. English".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Pastoral fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".