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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary.Time A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy.O The Oprah MagazineSexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one womans desperate soul.People Anna was a good wife, mostly.For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Brunoa bankerand their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zrich.