It's refreshing to discover a female protagonist who is allowed to be quite such a casual wife, such a detached mother, such an unromantic lover. Scottish Archie speaks "a queue of vowels rammed into one another like a smithy's bellows pressed hotly closed". Essbaum is an acclaimed poet and at moments her prose takes on a lyrical concentration. Torn between the identities of docile housewife and erotic adventuress, Anna is fragmented. Grazia There are echoes in Hausfrau of those other frustrated wives, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina. Glamour A racy mix of Gone Girl and 50 Shades. It's a bleak, but beautiful read, with echoes of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Cosmopolitan This slow-burning literary novel of marital disintegration will leave you in bits. The Times It's the book that will have everyone talking. It is a brilliantly sustained examination of self-induced loneliness and pathological alienation. The novel's mood is, like Anna's, dreamy and dissociated. This debut brilliantly chronicles a woman's life falling apart. 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.
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