Wetlands

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Charlotte Roche,Tim Mohr (Translator)
Published: 01/19/2010
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802144690
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 7.10″ L x 4.90″ W

About the Author

Charlotte Roche, born in High Wycombe but raised in Germany, has been a recognizable face in her adopted home country since she started working as a presenter on Viva, the German equivalent of MTV, in the mid-1990s. She went on to write and present programs and late-night talk shows for Arte and ZDF, and won the highly respected Grimme Prize for television in 2004.