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Without Me
She’s mid-twenties, just finished with her studies, and divorced practically as soon as she’s married. What do you do when your first great love crashes and burns? The narrator of Esther Schüttpelz’ debut novel is still looking: for the reason why they split up; for a plan for the future; for friendship and intimacy and intoxication and forgetting. Sharp-witted, vulnerable and hilarious, she tells the story of the year after and in-between.
»›You can pay for the second wedding yourself‹, Mum says.«
Esther Schüttpelz
208 pages
2023
978-3-257-07233-4
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»Esther Schüttpelz shows how it can feel to be stuck between your own ideals and reality.«
»A debut with a fast pace and increasing narrative density.«
»Esther Schüttpelz knows how to capture the small and large doubts of the Now in a very zeitgeisty way.«
»The Gen Z main character, by whom the work feels up-to-date, shines with self-irony. With all her edginess, she feels charming, humorous and real.«