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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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Hausfrau, Jill Alexander Essbaum
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Hausfrau
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jill Alexander Essbaum
- Publisher
- Random House
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN10
- 0812987292
- ISBN13
- 9780812987294
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Family, Women, American Literature, Life, Secrets, Marriage, Psychoanalysis, Switzerland, Loneliness, Home, Scandals and Affairs, Infidelity, Tragedy, Life Abroad
- Original title
- Hausfrau
- Rating
- 3.25 out of 5
- Description
- "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"--