Germinal
[This volume] exposes the in human conditions of French miners in the 1860s. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike against pay-cuts which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. [This] is a dramatic novel of working life, sexual desire, and everyday relationships, but it is also complex novel of ideas.-Back cover
Audiobook on CD, English, 2005
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, Princeton, N.J., 2005