Perfume Edition: z

Author: Patrick Süskind Title: Perfume Genre: Fantasy, Literature, Translated Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Group Identifier: 9780241975329, 9780141041155, asin: B00YZG2BJS Grade: retail eBook length: 269 pages Paperback, 263 pages Published: 1985 Edition: Penguin Books (2010) World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1987) PEN Translation Prize for John E. Woods (1987) Translated from the German by John E. Woods Original Title: Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Translated by: John E. Woods (1986) Patrick Süskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris 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 . . . 'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian 'A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay ... a remarkable début' Peter Ackroyd, The New York Times Book Review 'An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer "A tour de force of the imagination." — "People." Dec 2023 - epub verified by zardox.