--- product_id: 99248450 title: "The Monk of Mokha" price: "₱2685" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/99248450-the-monk-of-mokha store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # The Monk of Mokha **Price:** ₱2685 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Monk of Mokha - **How much does it cost?** ₱2685 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/99248450-the-monk-of-mokha) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gripping, triumphant adventure” ( Los Angeles Times ) from the bestselling author of The Circle —the incredible 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. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen’s central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral homeland to tour terraced farms high in the country’s rugged mountains and meet beleaguered but determined farmers. But when war engulfs the country and Saudi bombs rain down, Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen without sacrificing his dreams or abandoning his people. Review: compellingly brilliant - I very rarely give 5-star reviews, but this book is brilliant, astonishing, and so compelling that I had great trouble putting it down. I bought it because some Yemen coffee (from other sources) was the best coffee I've ever had, but while the book is about that to an extent, it's more about fascinating and incredible cross-cultural situations and interactions and adventures on many levels from the banal to extremes of conflict. And all very, very well-written. Review: Interesting book for coffee, lovers and information about Yemen - Interesting story about it, young man without goals, who became a successful coffee importer from Yemen ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #47,129 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Yemen History #2 in Yemen Travel Guides #3 in General Middle East Travel Guides | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,034 Reviews | ## Images ![The Monk of Mokha - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91vlp6mwvQL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ compellingly brilliant *by D***E on August 12, 2026* I very rarely give 5-star reviews, but this book is brilliant, astonishing, and so compelling that I had great trouble putting it down. I bought it because some Yemen coffee (from other sources) was the best coffee I've ever had, but while the book is about that to an extent, it's more about fascinating and incredible cross-cultural situations and interactions and adventures on many levels from the banal to extremes of conflict. And all very, very well-written. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting book for coffee, lovers and information about Yemen *by H***D on February 13, 2026* Interesting story about it, young man without goals, who became a successful coffee importer from Yemen ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Latest Masterwork from Dave Eggers *by K***C on February 1, 2018* I love the way Dave Eggers tells a larger story through a personal lens. As with Valentino Dent (What is the What) and Abdulrahman Zeitoun, he has taken the life of Mokhtar Alkhanshali and crafted it into a book so readable and yet so informative and true it becomes a real page turner. His books are proof of his extraordinary empathy, and this one is no exception. Mokhtar is a young man of Yemeni heritage, who grew up on the mean streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin, but his family was supportive if puzzled by some of his choices. He held many low paying jobs, never giving up hope that he would discover his calling even when at his lowest. It was a chance text from a friend that sent him across the street from where he was a doorman (lobby ambassador) to the Hills Bros. building on the Embarcadero, where he saw the twenty-foot statue of a man in full Yemeni dress grasping a cup of coffee to his lips. Despite the flowers on the statue's thobe (no self respecting native would ever wear that), he was struck by the relationship to the coffee cup, which led him to study about the origin of history of coffee and the role Yemen played in its manufacture. I'm not giving anything away by revealing that he eventually finds success as an importer of coffee from Yemen, but it is that history, his experiences in discovery and marketing, and his reasons for developing the industry in his native land that make this book a real Eggers work. 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