"Wetlands"

Germany's top selling novel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/world/europe/06taboo.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

The book, which will be published next year in the United States, 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, and hard to describe in a family newspaper.


"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.