Some readers have dismissed it as pornographic drivel written by a celebrity-seeking provocateur. Astonishingly profane and self-consciously designed to shock, the novel has provoked an enormous amount of controversy in Europe. Since its release in Germany last year, Wetlands has sold well over one million copies, and has made its author, a former VJ on a German MTV-style network, an international celebrity. Meanwhile, she schemes to reunite her divorced parents, and ponders how she might seduce a male nurse even while suffering from copious anal leakage. Eighteen-year-old Helen Memel has landed herself in the hospital after giving herself an anal lesion in a rushed and careless attempt to shave her own asshole.Ĭonfined to the proctology ward, she reflects explicitly and at great length upon a number of subjects that rarely find their way into works of literature - such as the aphrodisiac properties of snot, the joys of anal sex, and her deeply-felt love of smegma. ![]() Charlotte Roche’s debut novel Wetlands begins with an excruciatingly detailed description of the narrator’s hemorrhoids, and only gets grosser from there.
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