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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Single Espresso, Please

A Single Espresso, Please

Michael, Andreas

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798257640582
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 16 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He has no job, a wife he never really wanted, and a regular table at the Grande Bretagne café. From there, he watches: a womaniser who blames the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan for his marital failures; Van Gogh, the brilliant engineer with a fondness for brothels and Roman delusions; Marco Polo, who has never left the city but travels very far in his head.

A Single Espresso, Please is a wry, melancholy portrait of men adrift, told with the lightness of someone who has long since stopped expecting things to improve. It is episodic, digressive, and quietly funny; a novel that treats unemployment, failed love, and the passage of time not as subjects for lamentation but as the ordinary furniture of a life.

Andreas Michael writes not to console but to observe, and there is real honesty in that.

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