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Perfume, February 2001
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The Story of a Murderer
Vintage
February 2001
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Featuring: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
272 pages
ISBN: 0375725849
EAN: 9780375725845
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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick
Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of
what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest
passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an
absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the
odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent
perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious
oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is
not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with
capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and
frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent
that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to
create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young
virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a
hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
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