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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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Wetlands, Charlotte Roche
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- Wetlands
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Charlotte Roche
- Publisher
- GROVE ATLANTIC
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0802144691
- ISBN13
- 9780802144690
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Humor, Love, Family, German Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Germany, Erotica, Sexuality & Intimacy, Feminism, Adapted for Film, 21st Century, Divorce, Hospitals, Hygiene, Sexual Deviations, Generation Y, Millennials
- First published
- 2008
- Original title
- Feuchtgebiete
- Rating
- 2.75 out of 5
- Description
- 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.