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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.

Book details

• Full title: A Single Espresso, Please
• Author: Andreas Michael
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174
• EAN: 9798257640582
• ID: 52094591
• Publisher: Independently published
• Weight: 189 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 133 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. April 2026

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