# Piping Hot (Pot Bouille), Book Ten of Rougon-Macquart Cycle

An audiobook by Émile Zola, read by LibriVox volunteers (15 h, English).

Covering a two-year period, Zola recounts the lives, intrigues, quarrel and loves of a group of five families all living in what was at the time an entirely new social construct, the apartment building. This marks the midpoint of Zola's immense undertaking, the Rougon-Macquart Cycle. - Summary by Mark Leder

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/22073)
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