Hausfrau
Essbaum, Jill Alexander2016
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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 tranquillity 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, she 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 sets off a terrible chain of events that ends in unspeakable tragedy. As her life crashes down around her, Anna must discover where one goes when there is no going back.
Main title:
Hausfrau / Jill Alexander Essbaum.
Author:
Essbaum, Jill Alexander, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2016.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Random House, 2015.
ISBN:
9781447280811 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
28810
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