Name: The Belly of Paris (Modern Library)
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Author: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN: 9780812974225

portada The Belly of Paris (Modern Library)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Emile Zola

Translated by

Mark Kurlansky

Publisher

Modern Library

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x13x2.3 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN

0812974220

ISBN13

9780812974225

Synopsis "The Belly of Paris (Modern Library) "

Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother's family in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market, Florent is soon caught up in a dangerous maelstrom of food and politics. Amid intrigue among the market's sellers-the fishmonger, the charcutière, the fruit girl, and the cheese vendor-and the glorious culinary bounty of their labors, we see the dramatic difference between "fat and thin" (the rich and the poor) and how the widening gulf between them strains a city to the breaking point. Translated and with an Introduction by the celebrated historian and food writer Mark Kurlansky, The Belly of Paris offers fascinating perspectives on the French capital during the Second Empire-and, of course, tantalizing descriptions of its sumptuous repasts.

Mark Kurlansky

(Translated by)

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Mark Kurlansky es un escritor y periodista que ha trabajado como corresponsal para The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer y The Miami Herald. Centrado en la divulgación de la historia cultural, es autor de los best seller internacionales El bacalao y La historia vasca del mundo.

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