Emile Zola - Nana

Emile Zola - Nana Title in Armenian Էմիլ Զոլա - Նանա Author(s) Emile Zola Translator(s) Nvard Vardanyan Language(s) Armenian Publisher(s) Antares Year 2021 Pages 560 Binding Hardcover Size 14.5 x 21 cm ISBN 9789939768205 Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appeared near the end of Zola's earlier novel Rougon-Macquart series, L'Assommoir (1877), where she is the daughter of an abusive drunk. At the conclusion of that novel, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution. Nana opens with a night at the Théâtre des Variétés in April 1867 just after the Exposition Universelle has opened. Nana is eighteen years old, though she would have been fifteen according to the family tree