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Hausfrau

Written by: Jill Alexander Essbaum
Narrated by: Mozhan Marno
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Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far from home; but, despite its tranquility and order, inside she is falling apart.
Feeling adrift and unable to connect with her husband or his family; with the fellow expatriates who try to befriend her; or even, increasingly, her own thoughts and emotions, Anna attempts to assert her agency in the only way that makes sense to her: by engaging in short-lived but intense sexual affairs.
But adultery, too, has its own morality, and when Anna finds herself crossing a line, she will set off a terrible chain of events that will end in unspeakable tragedy. As her life crashes down around her, Anna must then discover where one must go when there is no going back . . .

 Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Women's Fiction
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Critic Reviews

With an elegance, precision and surehandedness that recalls Marguerite Duras's The Lover and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac, Jill Alexander Essbaum gives us this exquisite tale of an expatriate American wife living in Switzerland and her sexual and psychic unraveling. Hausfrau stuns with its confidence and severe beauty, its cascading insights into the uses of erotic life and the nature of secrets, the urgency of compulsion and the difficulty of freedom. A rare and remarkable debut.
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loved it .. narration was impressive. modern tale of different versions of love .. quite captivating.

Who she had loved and didn’t love. But had loved.

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Not a love story . But a novel that maps out the interior life of an adulteress I.e Her slow descent into immorality as she flips from one short stinted affair to the next . Much of the novel also revolves around her domestic life . There are many conversations with other characters but my favourite chapters were the main character's (she's no protagonist ) inner monologues . Don't let my bleak summary dissuade you from reading/listening to it . It's an excellent novel with many paragraphs reading like stanzas of well crafted poetry. Given the author's training as a poet this is not surprising .

I decided to give this a go as I'd loved the narrator Mozhan Marno who'd also read aloud a Wonder Woman Audio book . Her regal voice suits this novel just as well as it did the former .

An un apologetically 'interior 'novel

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