Charlotte Roche – författare

With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.Since its debut in February, the novel (‘Feuchtgebiete’, in German) has sold more than 680,000 copies, and is the biggest selling book on Amazon anywhere in the world.The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical and psychological, of its narrator's body and mind. It is difficult to overstate the raunchiness of the novel. Wetlands opens in a hospital room after an intimate shaving accident. It gives a detailed topography of Helen's hemorrhoids, continues into the subject of anal intercourse and only gains momentum from there, eventually reaching avocado pits as objects of female sexual satisfaction and – here is where the debate kicks in – just possibly female empowerment. Clearly the novel has struck a nerve, catching a wave of popular interest in renewing the debate over women's roles and image in society.

With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.Since its debut in February, the novel ("Feuchtgebiete," in German) has sold more than a million copies, and is the biggest selling book on Amazon anywhere in the world.The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical and psychological, of its narrator's body and mind. It is difficult to overstate the raunchiness of the novel. Wetlands opens in a hospital room after an intimate shaving accident. It gives a detailed topography of Helen's hemorrhoids, continues into the subject of anal intercourse and only gains momentum from there, eventually reaching avocado pits as objects of female sexual satisfaction and - here is where the debate kicks in - just possibly female empowerment. Clearly the novel has struck a nerve, catching a wave of popular interest in renewing the debate over women's roles and image in society.

With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel''s 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical and psychological, of its narrator''s body and mind. It is difficult to overstate the raunchiness of the novel. Wetlands opens in a hospital room after an intimate shaving accident. It gives a detailed topography of Helen''s hemorrhoids, continues into the subject of anal intercourse and only gains momentum from there, eventually reaching avocado pits as objects of female sexual satisfaction and – here is where the debate kicks in – just possibly female empowerment. Clearly the novel has struck a nerve, catching a wave of popular interest in renewing the debate over women''s roles and image in society.

From the author of the international bestseller ‘Wetlands’, a raw and taboo-breaking novel of sex and grief, obsession and death.‘My therapist says I’m trying to escape fear through sex… I could easily have sex ten times a day.’Elizabeth Kiehl is a devoted mother. A committed environmentalist. The ideal wife. So why is she so insecure? Because her daughter has worms? Because the planet is still doomed? Because visiting brothels with her husband makes her feel sick?Or is it that if she stops thinking about absolutely everything else she will remember what happened to her family eight years ago? ‘Wrecked’ is a raw, uncompromising and blackly comic portrayal of trauma, sexuality and one woman’s desperate attempt to cling to something like sanity.

From the author of the international bestseller `Wetlands’, a raw and taboo-breaking novel of sex and grief, obsession and death.`My therapist says I’m trying to escape fear through sex… I could easily have sex ten times a day.’Elizabeth Kiehl is a devoted mother. A committed environmentalist. The ideal wife. So why is she so insecure? Because her daughter has worms? Because the planet is still doomed? Because visiting brothels with her husband makes her feel sick?Or is it that if she stops thinking about absolutely everything else she will remember what happened to her family eight years ago? Wrecked is a raw, uncompromising and blackly comic portrayal of trauma, sexuality and one woman’s desperate attempt to cling to something like sanity.

A collection of Charlotte Roche’s two sensational, defiantly honest and startlingly unique novels`We should celebrate a writer like Roche, whose voice is defiantly, shamelessly her own’ GuardianRoche’s first novel, `Wetlands’, is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical and psychological, of its narrator's body and mind. It immediately became a literary sensation on publication, and was the biggest selling book on Amazon – anywhere in the world.Replete with a forty page description of marital sex, details of worms, and even, following an abortion, `the best anal sex ever’, `Wrecked’ reannounced Charlotte Roche, and showed her exploring the detrimental pressures placed on women as mothers and wives.

Am liebsten tagsüber und Fenster zu wegen der Nachbarn. So mag es Elizabeth. Ihr Mann macht die Heizdecken auf dem Bett an, dann kann´s losgehen. Sie fährt sofort mit der Hand rein in Georgs XXL-Yogahose. Und ab hier betrügt sie ihre Männer hassende Mutter, die ihr beibringen wollte, dass Sex etwas Schlechtes sei. Hat aber nicht geklappt, Glück für Elizabeth, Glück für Georg. Aber Sex ist ja nicht alles, es gibt auch noch das Essenkochen für ihre Tochter Liza, und es gibt den Exmann, Lizas Vater. Keine geringe Rolle spielen auch ihre Ängste und ihre schrecklichen Eltern. Wobei diese Themen für Elizabeth seit dem Unfall immer zusammengehören.»Schoßgebete« erzählt von Ehe und Familie wie kein Roman zuvor. Radikal offen, selbstbewusst und voller grimmigem Humor ist es die Geschichte einer so unerschrockenen wie verletzlichen jungen Frau.

Ihre Ehe? Horror.Ihr Kind? Egal.Ihre Zukunft? Rosig.Denn sie hat jetzt ein Mädchen für alles. Und einen ziemlich guten Plan.

Wie schafft man es, glücklich eine lange Beziehung zu führen? Charlotte Roche und Martin Keß-Roche sagen: Indem man redet. Wie das geht, zeigen sie in ihrem Podcast – und jetzt auch in diesem Buch. Es geht um die zentralen Themen, die jedes Paar umtreiben: Liebe nach der Verliebtheit, Sex, Eifersucht, Geld, Zuhören, Kinderkriegen und -haben, Erziehung, Lust, Fremdgehen. Die unbedingte Ehrlichkeit der Roches führt einen bald zu der entlastenden Erkenntnis: (Fast) alle Paare haben die gleichen Probleme. Und man kann sie lösen. Für ihr Buch haben die beiden die Themen des Podcasts geordnet und neu aufbereitet, die Paartherapeutin Dr. Amalfi kommentiert und gibt weitergehende Informationen.