Süskind, Patrick,

Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Süskind ; translated from the German by John E. Woods. - UK : Penguin Books, 2015. - 263 pages ; 18 cm. - Penguin essentials . - Penguin essentials. .

This translation originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986.

Born in sweaty, fetid 18th-century Paris, Grenouille is distinctive even in infancy. He has a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's and no personal odour. S�uskind develops this idea into a tale of murder controlled by a loathing of humanity.

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France--Social conditions--18th century--Fiction.


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Fiction in Translation.

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