Perfume

Perfume

by Patrick Suskind

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that 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

ISBN: 9785352000540

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"I've read "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind about 10 times in my life, and... I can't stop reading it. It's like, something that's just stationary in my pocket all the time. It just doesn't leave me and uh, every time I'm bored, like, when I'm on an airplane or something I read it over and over again. 'Cause I'm a hypochondriac and it just affects me."

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