Hausfrau (Paperback, Air Iri Ome)

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 . . .

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Jill Alexander Essbaum
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	336
Edition:	Air Iri Ome
ISBN-13:	978-1-5098-1698-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-5098-1698-4
Barcode:	9781509816989

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