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Wetlands by Tim Mohr, Charlotte Roche

ISBN: 9780007296705
Release Date: 05 Feb 2009
Average rating: (read by 34 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

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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	Tessa123
	Rated it 2 months ago

A book that makes the mind and body move in all kinds of ways! But most of all: funny as hell! Just couldn't stop reading.

	elenjones Full Review
	Rated it 8 months ago

This book actually made me feel sick on the tube and I had to stop reading (I won't tell you which bit), but I loved it. I don't think a book has ever nearly forced me to part with my lunch before. I think the main character is brilliant and witty and...

	bonniekozeluh
	Rated it 10 months ago

wow - if you can get past the cringe factor it's unlike anything else you'll ever read. Morbidly enthralling!

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