Entzug

"Withdrawal" begins with a vodka bottle on the kitchen table of a family of three - and the question of how it got there. Did the narrator forget it there while his wife and child were at the playground? The novel begins with a writer who drinks in order to be able to write, think and feel. At some point, he only drinks until the question arises: drink and die or stop and live? He checks himself into a clinic. "Withdrawal" is ruthlessly honest and deals with the complicated logistics of addiction, the deception of others - and of oneself. And it tells of the way out of addiction and back into life. Christoph Peters, born in Kalkar in 1966, has received numerous awards for his books. He lives in Berlin. Most recently, "Innerstädtischer Tod" (2025), the final part of his trilogy based on Wolfgang Koeppen, was published.

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