L'ammazzatoio by Émile Zola
A stark naturalistic portrait of working-class Paris that follows Gervaise, a laundress who strives by hard work and thrift to improve her lot but whose hopes are eroded by her husband Coupeau’s descent into drinking after an accident, the opportunism of those around them, and the relentless pressures of poverty; the novel traces the family's moral and material decline and exposes how alcoholism, gossip and social conditions corrode dignity and destroy aspirations.
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