{"product_id":"hausfrau-paperback","title":"Hausfrau - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJill Alexander Essbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - \u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE HUFFINGTON POST, \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eSHELF AWARENESS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e- \"In \u003ci\u003eHausfrau, Anna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e goes \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades\u003c\/i\u003e with a side of \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy.\"--\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman's desperate soul.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna was a good wife, mostly. \u003c\/b\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Girl on the Train\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Upstairs\u003c\/i\u003e comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAnna 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 analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But Anna can't easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it's difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eHausfrau\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegant . . . There is much to admire in Essbaum's intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"For a first novelist, Essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet. Her language is meticulous and resonant and daring.\"\u003cb\u003e--NPR's \u003ci\u003eWeekend Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"We're in literary territory as familiar as Anna's name, but Essbaum makes it fresh with sharp prose and psychological insight.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This marvelously quiet book is psychologically complex and deeply intimate. . . . One of the smartest novels in recent memory.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Essbaum's poignant, shocking debut novel rivets.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUs Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A powerful, lyrical novel . . . \u003ci\u003eHausfrau\u003c\/i\u003e boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Imagine Tom Perrotta's American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zürich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJill Alexander Essbaum\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several collections of poetry and her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as its sister anthology, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Erotic Poems, 1800-Present\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize and recipient of two NEA literature fellowships. A member of the core faculty at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program, she lives and writes in Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47748272914681,"sku":"9780812987294","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bBTIxv5A3q9780812987294.webp?v=1775051810","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hausfrau-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}