Perfume
by Patrick Suskind
Category: Fiction / S - U
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 26 January 2006
Number of pages: 304
Description:
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover. He has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it, he must kill.
What the papers say:
A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism
Author's Biography:
Patrick Suskind was born in Ambach, near Munich, in 1949. He studied medieval and modern history at the University of Munich. His first play, The Double Bass, was written in 1980 and became an international success. It was performed in Germany, in Switzerland, at the Edinburgh Festival, in London, and at the New Theatre in Brooklyn. His first novel, Perfume became an internationally acclaimed bestseller. He is also the author of The Pigeon and Mr. Summer's Story, and a coauthor of the enormously successful German television series Kir Royal. Mr. Suskind lives and writes in Munich.
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