{"product_id":"germinal-9781515432982","title":"Germinal","description":"The novel's central character is  tienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north of France to earn a living as a miner. Sacked from his previous job on the railways for assaulting a superior - he befriends the veteran miner Maheu, who finds him somewhere to stay and gets him a job pushing the carts down the pit.  tienne is portrayed as a hard-working idealist but also a na ve youth;.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrench novelist, playwright, and journalist Emile Zola (1840-1902) was a leading proponent of naturalism in fiction, as expressed in his monumental 20-novel series \u003ci\u003eLes Rougon-Macquart.\u003c\/i\u003e Nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature, Zola also played a major role in the exoneration of the falsely accused officer at the center of the Dreyfus Affair; the headline of his open letter to the President of France, \u003ci\u003eJ'accuse...!\u003c\/i\u003e, remains an international watchword for speaking truth to power.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"SMK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50418294587666,"sku":"9781515432982","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ceaa725d-2ddb-4c6a-8b94-85cd427b452c.jpg?v=1729467272","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/germinal-9781515432982","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}