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"A bestseller denounced as a 'masturbation pamphlet' is about to be published in Canada. Provocative is one of those publishing buzzwords reflexively used to stir up interest in the most banal of books. Next month, however, a work of fiction lands in Canada for which the overused descriptor is tepid. The book is Wetlands, a translation of Feuchtgebiete, written by 30-year-old German TV personality Charlotte Roche. The novel, which has sold some 1.5 million copies in Germany and became the first German work of fiction to top Amazon.com's global chart, has caused a major Teutonic commotion since its publication last February, so much so that smelling salts have become necessary at Roche's public readings due to people fainting. Just what's most shocking about the novel is up for debate: is it the defiant shamelessness with which its troubled 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, who's recovering in hospital from surgery to remove an infected hemorrhoid, boldly charts her bodily secretions and sexuality? ("I use my smegma the way others use their vials of perfume," she claims.) Or is it that the novel's utterly original, occasionally stomach-churning imagery was written by a woman who resembles a young Audrey Hepburn?" --Maclean's, "Probably not for Oprah's book club." February 16, 2009
"When Wetlands is published on March 7, there'll likely be a reprise of the "Is it a 'feminist erotic literary classic' of 'brilliantly marketed pornography' " debate seen in Germany, a discussion that erroneously presumes any explicit, iconoclastic book about female sexuality must be one of the other." -- Maclean's --Maclean's
"How could some of those who have commented on the book in other countries have called Wetlands porn? Helen is a child, a wounded person in a hostile environment, creating her own pride and boundaries. Without self-pity, without therapy. Just creation of self by any means necessary, creation of memory where shock and fear made the outlines of the event waver like a mirage." -- Lisa Carver, The Globe and Mail --The Globe and Mail This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"When Wetlands is published on March 7, there'll likely be a reprise of the "Is it a 'feminist erotic literary classic' of 'brilliantly marketed pornography' " debate seen in Germany, a discussion that erroneously presumes any explicit, iconoclastic book about female sexuality must be one of the other." -- Maclean's --Maclean's
"How could some of those who have commented on the book in other countries have called Wetlands porn? Helen is a child, a wounded person in a hostile environment, creating her own pride and boundaries. Without self-pity, without therapy. Just creation of self by any means necessary, creation of memory where shock and fear made the outlines of the event waver like a mirage." -- Lisa Carver, The Globe and Mail --The Globe and Mail This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Wetlands is narrated by eighteen-year-old Helen Memel, an outspoken, contradictory teenager whose childlike stubbornness is paired with a premature sense of sexual confidence. She speaks from a hospital bed in the Department of Internal Medicine where she's recovering from an operation after accidentally cutting her hemorrhoids while shaving. The small fissure became infected and required an emergency surgery that leaves her bedridden and in excruciating pain. Beyond her physical discomfort, Helen is still reeling over her parents' divorce. Their separation has left Helen bereft and uncomfortable with solitude, and while she sees her hospitalization as the perfect way to get her parents in a room together, she continuously fails to synchronize a visitation. To distract herself, Helen maintains a constant flow of deeply candid narration that thrusts the reader on "a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct" (The New York Times--both physical and psychological--of Helen's body and mind. Surrounded by surgical instruments and humming X-ray machines, she reflects in ever more uncomfortable detail on the eccentric wonders of the female body. Wetlands is a fearless, gritty, and at times revolting slap in the face to the glossy, sanitized prescription for femininity espoused by women's magazines.
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