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Title: The Belly of Paris
Author: Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (translator)
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-20-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Classics, European Literature

Summary:
Although it is little known in this country, The Belly of Paris is considered one of Émile Zolas best novels. Set in the newly built food markets of Paris, it is a story of wealth and poverty set against a sumptuous banquet of food and commerce.
Having just escaped from prison after being wrongfully accused, young Florent arrives at Paris food market, Les Halles, half starved, surrounded by all he cant have, and indignant at his world, which he now knows to be unjust. He finds that the citys working classes have been displaced to make way for bigger streets and bourgeois living quarters, so he settles in with his brothers family. Gradually, he takes up with the local socialists, who are more at home in bars than on the revolutionary streets. Slowly, the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor drags the city to the breaking point.

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