Hausfrau
17 March 2015Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
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...
Details
17 March 2015256 pages
9781447280828Imprint: Mantle
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
