Jill Alexander Essbaum Książki

"The Book that will have everyone talking" CosmopolitanAnna 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...PRAISE FOR HAUSFRAU"Haunting . . . Beautifully written, the ennui of its Anna Karenina-esque heroine's deceptively perfect life as a Swiss housewife seeps from every page" Harper's Bazaar, Best books of 2015"Hausfrau may be the Fifty Shades of literary fiction . . . This debut brilliantly chronicles a woman'slife falling apart . . ." The Times

Ana Benc, ketvirtą dešimtį bebaigianti amerikietė, gyvena su savo vyru, šveicaru bankininku, ir trimis mažamečiais jųdviejų vaikais Ciuricho priemiestyje, tobulame kaip atvirukas. Nors jos gyvenimas gražiai sustyguotas, vidujai Ana jaučiasi žlunganti. Ji mėgina save skatinti naujais potyriais — vokiečių kalbos kursais, Jungo psichoanalize, virtine seksualinių santykių, į kuriuos leidžiasi taip lengvai, kad net pati nustemba. Keliaudamas tarp aistros ir meilės, kaltės ir gėdos, pasiteisinimų ir priežasčių, ilgam įsimenantis Anos Benc personažas atskleidžia skaitytojams savo pasirinkimus, kuriuos jie atpažins savyje ir apie kuriuos negalės nustoti galvoję. Nepaprasto grožio ir atvirumo pasakojimas apie tai, kaip mes save sukuriame ir susinaikiname, priėmę nelemtus sprendimus savęs ieškojimo kelyje.