Hausfrau
13 August 2015Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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,...
Details
13 August 2015336 pages
9781509816989Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Haunting . . . Beautifully written, the ennui of its Anna Karenina-esque heroine's deceptively perfect life as a Swiss housewife seeps from every pageBest books of 2015, Harper’s Bazaar
Hausfrau may be the Fifty Shades of literary fiction . . . This debut brilliantly chronicles a woman's
The Times
life falling apart . . . The novel's mood is, like Anna's, dreamy and dissociated . . . It is a brilliantly sustained examination of self-induced loneliness and pathological alienation.
It's the book that will have everyone talking . . .Cosmopolitan
This slow-burning literary novel of marital disintegration will leave you in bits. It's a bleak, but beautiful read, with echoes of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.Glamour
