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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, AND SHELF AWARENESS "In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary ."-- Time "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 "Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman's desperate soul." -- People Anna 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. 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, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. 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 a

Who reads Hausfrau?

Author

Essbaum, Jill Alexander

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812997545

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.24 / 5 (10,192 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14