Hausfrau - Brossura

Essbaum, Jill Alexander

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1447280814 ISBN 13: 9781447280811

Casa editrice: Picador, 2016

Riassunto

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 Zurich. Though she leads a comfortable life, she is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with Bruno, or even her own 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 her. But she soon finds that she can't easily extract herself from these relationships. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back . . .

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Recensione:

Haunting . . . Beautifully written, the ennui of its Anna Karenina-esque heroine's deceptively perfect life as a Swiss housewife seeps from every page (Best books of 2015, Harper’s Bazaar)

Hausfrau may be the Fifty Shades of literary fiction . . . This debut brilliantly chronicles a woman's
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.

(The Times)

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)

A racy mix of Gone Girl and 50 Shades. (Grazia)

There are echoes in Hausfrau of those other frustrated wives, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina (Independent on Sunday)

It is that impossible thing: a page-turner about depression. (Observer)

A rare and remarkable debut. (Janet Fitch, bestselling author of White Oleander)

An exceptional debut . . . [with] a heart-stopping climax . . . this portrait of a woman on the edge lingers long in the memory. (The Bookseller)

I read this at a sitting, transfixed by this insightful and shocking portrait of a woman on the edge. (Fanny Blake Woman and Home)

Descrizione del libro:

An extraordinary debut literary page-turner with echoes of Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1447280814
• ISBN 13: 9781447280811
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336