Книга: Macmillan Publishers: EssbauMacmillan Publishers: J,Hausfrau

Anna Benz, an American woman in her late thirties, married Bruno, a Swiss banker, and made a new life with him in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich, where they live in comfort and affluence with their three young children. But just as the neat and tidy exterior of Zurich and Dietlikon obscures the darker, more complicated aspects of living in Switzerland so is Anna, despite the tranquility and order of her domestic life, falling apart inside. Adrift in life and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or his family, with the fellow expatriates who attempt to befriend her, or even, increasingly, with her own thoughts and emotions, Anna attempts to assert her agency in life in the only way that makes sense to her: by engaging in short-lived but intense sexual affairs with men who proposition her. But adultery, too, has its own morality, and crossing a line like this one has consequences; just when Anna tries to extract herself from the mess she's in, she is caught, setting off a chain of events that ends in unspeakable tragedy. As her life crashes down around her, Anna must now find out where one must go when there is no going back...