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63 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2004
Europe is made up of coffeehouses, of cafés. These extend from Pessoa's favorite coffeehouse in Lisbon to the Odessa cafés haunted by Isaac Babel's gangsters.... Draw the coffeehouse map and you have one of the essential markers of the "idea of Europe."I've sipped coffee with the crowds at Cafe A Brasileira – and sat next to its metal sculpture of Pessoa on the sidewalk outside. It's as much as museum as anything in the U.S.