Haunting and elegant, Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum.
Anna was a good wife, mostly . . .
Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far from home; but, despite its tranquility and order, inside she is falling apart.
Feeling adrift and unable to connect with her husband or his family; with the fellow expatriates who try to befriend her; or even, increasingly, her own thoughts and emotions, Anna attempts to assert her agency in the only way that makes sense to her: by engaging in short-lived but intense sexual affairs.
But adultery, too, has its own morality, and when Anna finds herself crossing a line, she will set off a terrible chain of events that ends in unspeakable tragedy. As her life crashes down around her, Anna must then discover where one must go when there is no going back . . .
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781447280798
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 469 g
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 27 mm
Anna, an American who is married to a Swiss man with three children lives in the suburbs of Zurich in Switzerland. Anna's story grips and disturbs you from the first page and you have love and hate relationship... More
Anna feels alone in the life she lives in with her husband and three children. She felt alone in America, her hometown, and she feels alone in Switzerland, her current residence. No matter where she goes and who she... More
Anna is an American living in Zurich. She has a husband and three children but she feels lost and unable to connect with anyone. This leads her to make questionable decisions with devastating results.
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