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Green Wave
After going to the cinema with her best friend, a woman gets into her car and drives home – until a diversion takes her off her usual route. She misses exit after exit, straying further and further from home, where her husband is waiting for her. Within a night and a day it becomes clear: perhaps it would be better if she never went back to him. Because as unsettling as the darkness of the highways and gas stations may be, the true danger is waiting for her at home.
208 pages
2026
978-3-257-07381-2
»This is a book to open wide awake and to read in one session.«
»It's a compelling narrative perspective that Esther Schüttpelz employs to involve us in the inner monologue of this woman, virtually facilitated by the route diversions.«
»In a subtle way, Esther Schüttpelz inweaves hideous topics of our time, such as domestic violence.«
»An intense yet down-to-earth book […]. The author has a good sense of pace which gets increased at times and decreased at others.«
»The insight that you cannot carry on the way you used to, has rarely been approached and narrated with such grotesque humour, despite the seriousness.«
»Green Wave is a captivating feat: a protagonist who has always lied to herself nevertheless tells us the whole truth.«