The Fat And The Thin

Zola presents a study of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart, who has become prosperous and increasingly selfish. The book contains vivid pictures of the markets, bursting with the food of a great city, and of the vast population which lives by handling and distributing it.

THE FAT AND THE THIN" or to use the French title "Le Ventre de Paris" is a story of life in and around those vast Central Markets which form a distinctive feature of modern Paris.