Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Author:
Patrick Süskind
Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780241973615
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Format:
Paperback
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Publishing Date:
2015
Number of Pages:
263
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Language:
English
Condition:
New
'In eighteenth-century France, there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent...'