by Alfred Bosch · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408052029
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«Los siete aromas del mundo» is the historical novel by Alfred Bosch, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (322 pages, in Spanish).
A Puritan preacher in 17th-century London condemns coffee, the fashionable drink: some see it as a cause of impotence, leprosy, sin and death; others, as an aphrodisiac, remedy or panacea. Félix Dufoy sets out from Protestant London to Istanbul, Arabia, Abyssinia, Voltaire's France and Brazil in search of the best coffee.
The novel won the Ramon Llull Prize 2004, is a translation from Catalan by Raimon Artís; the original title is «Les set aromes del món».
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in travel, the modern era and the origins of coffee.
Alfred Bosch i Pascual is a Catalan academic, journalist, author, politician and a former Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of Catalonia. He was previously a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain and a member of Barcelona City Council.
