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Wetlands (Paperback)
Charlotte Roche; Translated by Tim Mohr
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Wetlands--an international sensation with more than a million
copies sold worldwide--has been at the center of a heated debate
about feminism and sexuality since its publication last spring.
Charlotte Roche's controversial debut novel is the story of Helen
Memel, an outspoken, sexually precocious eighteen-year-old lying in
a hospital bed as she recovers from an operation. To distract
herself, she ruminates on her past sexual and physical adventures
in increasingly uncomfortable detail. The result is a funny,
shocking, and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and
the compulsion to obliterate the covenant that keeps girls clean,
quiet, and nice.
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Wrecked (Paperback)
Charlotte Roche
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From the author of the international bestseller 'Wetlands', a raw
and taboo-breaking novel of sex and grief, obsession and death. 'My
therapist says I'm trying to escape fear through sex... I could
easily have sex ten times a day.' Elizabeth Kiehl is a devoted
mother. A committed environmentalist. The ideal wife. So why is she
so insecure? Because her daughter has worms? Because the planet is
still doomed? Because visiting brothels with her husband makes her
feel sick? Or is it that if she stops thinking about absolutely
everything else she will remember what happened to her family eight
years ago? 'Wrecked' is a raw, uncompromising and blackly comic
portrayal of trauma, sexuality and one woman's desperate attempt to
cling to something like sanity.
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Wetlands (Paperback)
Charlotte Roche; Translated by Tim Mohr
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With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming
habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte
Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national
conversation in Germany. Since its debut in February, the novel
('Feuchtgebiete', in German) has sold more than 680,000 copies, and
is the biggest selling book on Amazon anywhere in the world. The
book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct,
physical and psychological, of its narrator's body and mind. It is
difficult to overstate the raunchiness of the novel. Wetlands opens
in a hospital room after an intimate shaving accident. It gives a
detailed topography of Helen's hemorrhoids, continues into the
subject of anal intercourse and only gains momentum from there,
eventually reaching avocado pits as objects of female sexual
satisfaction and - here is where the debate kicks in - just
possibly female empowerment. Clearly the novel has struck a nerve,
catching a wave of popular interest in renewing the debate over
women's roles and image in society.
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