Hausfrau
a novel
by Jill Alexander Essbaum
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"Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is falling apart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis, German language classes, and a series of extramarital affairs whose consequences she cannot foretell. Hausfrau is a daring novel about marriage, fidelity, morality, and most especially, self: how we create ourselves and how we lose our selves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves"--
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Married women, Self-realization in women, Adultery, Fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction, Switzerland, fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Contemporary Women, FICTION / Psychological, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2015-04-05, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Roman, Amerikanisches EnglischPlaces
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Hausfrau: a novel
2015, Random House, Random House Publishing Group
in English
- Random House trade paperback edition.
0812987292 9780812987294
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Includes "A reader's guide" (pages 325-351).
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Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is falling apart. In an effort to restart her life, she turns to Jungian analysis, German language classes, and a series of extramarital affair, whose consequences she cannot foretell.
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