![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her.īut Anna can’t easily extract herself from these affairs. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. ![]() “Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman’s desperate soul.” - PeopleĪnna was a good wife, mostly. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.Īnna 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. “A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy.”- O: The Oprah Magazine “In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary.”- Time.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, AND SHELF AWARENESS. ![]()
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