Hausfrau

HausfrauBy: Jill Alexander Essbaum Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum. 'The Book that will have everyone talking' Cosmopolitan Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno a banker and their three young children, in a postcard perfect suburb of Zrich. Though she leads a comfortable life, she is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect

Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum. 'The Book that will have everyone talking' Cosmopolitan

Anna Benz, an American in her late-thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno - a banker - and their three young children, in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich.

Though she leads a comfortable life, she is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with Bruno, or even her own feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises her.

But she soon finds that she can't easily extract herself from these relationships. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back . . .