Wetlands

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• And she seems like such a nice girl...

  Charlotte Roche was born in High Wycombe and brought up in Germany. She grew up to become a cool young television presenter who is usually photographed peeping demurely from beneath a fringe, a German Amélie. Often, she is wearing puff-sleeves. Do no ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• Graphic novel

  On many levels, Wetlands is extraordinary. At one point in 2008 the original German novel was the world's bestselling book. It has triggered a global debate about whether it is art or porn, and contains descriptions so disturbing that people have fai ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

4 Reviews

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  Disturbing

  Close to the bone, found hard to read at times, then hard to put down at times. If you want to read something that stretches your comfort zone this is it.

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  Ebony Rose said on Jan 11, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  The private life of this girl is not very interesting.

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  TC said on Dec 6, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Gross But Good

  Really gross:) But I like the way Roche has written from inside of a mind that - as a consequence of enforced boredom - considers all sorts of strange concepts. A dramatically dysfunctional family history surfaces through the book, in part explaining why things are now so, kinda interesting study an ... (continue)

  Really gross:) But I like the way Roche has written from inside of a mind that - as a consequence of enforced boredom - considers all sorts of strange concepts. A dramatically dysfunctional family history surfaces through the book, in part explaining why things are now so, kinda interesting study and topmost marks for apparent honesty and lack of inhibition.

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  mrpeterryan said on Jan 10, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  A bit pointless, really. One of those books I won't remember having read next year. The crudeness of it I didn't find as crass as I thought I would, but the reading didn't engage me at all. Worth forgetting, I would say.

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  Annalisa said on Sep 19, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• ISBN-10: 0007307616
• ISBN-13: 9780007307616
• Publisher: HarperPerennial
• Pub date: Jun 25, 2009
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Livros em Português, llibres en català, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken, Česká kniha

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