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Informationen zum Autor Thirty-year-old 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. Klappentext In a sexually and anatomically explicit novel, Roche exposes the double bind of female sexuality, delivering a compulsively readable and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the repercussions of family trauma. Zusammenfassung 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.
