Trap

The novel of the “trap” is one of the most powerful, truthful and merciless works of the Zola Family Saga “Rugon-Makkara.”
Twenty years of the life of a poor Parisian of Gervaisa. Relations with a fraudster and Alphonse Lantier to a respectable family life with an honest worker of coupo, the discovery of a small own business ... and a gradual fall back into the abyss of poverty, physical and moral mud and squalor. The fall, the cause of which was drunkenness, mercilessly sucking in his mouth more and more victims.
Gervese and Cupo can no longer rise from the bottom. But their daughter will become a retribution for their disgusting and miserable fate - a beautiful and frivolous child of the Parisian slums of Nana, a born great seducer, ruin and tamer of men