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Hausfrau Author: Jill Alexander Essbaum

ISBN: 9781447280804 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 256 Published: 1 March 2015 Country of Publication: AU Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.6 Description: An extraordinary debut literary page-turner with echoes of Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina

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 do...

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