Hausfrau
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jill Alexander Essbaum
Edition: Random House trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Random House; Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780812987294
Subjects: Married women; Fiction; Adultery; Self-realization in women; Psychological fiction
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"--
Notes: Includes "A reader's guide" (pages 325-351).