El Andariego: Relatos Cafeteros

From a printing of 1000 copies.

A lyrical, unhurried meditation on coffee and the international coffee trade, El Andariego is the work of a Colombian writer who explores the impact of global obsession on the farmers and laborers who grow and harvest coffee beans.

Carlos Ospina Marulanda, an award-winning creative talent, reminds us of the economic, cultural, political, and climate-related forces which complicate coffee growing, telling stories of people he has met, villages and mountains he has visited. Despite the challenges, his goal is “moving from lament to understanding,” illustrating the depth of coffee’s impact on daily lives.

Unusual because of its reliance on the voices of people who are so intimately involved in the coffee trade, and because books on coffee from this part of the world are so scarce.

Paperback.  5 x 8.25. 160 pages. In Spanish.