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Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Süskind ; translated from the German by John E. Woods.
Follows an odorless baby found orphaned in Paris in 1738 as he grows into a monster obsessed with his perfect sense of smell and a desire to capture, by any means, the ultimate scent that will make him human.
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- ISBN: 9780804152976
- ISBN: 0804152977
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 2013.
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| General Note: | Translation of: Das Parfum. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Fiction. |
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Electronic resources
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1986 October #2
Upon its publication last year in Germany Susskind's first novel Perfume immediately became an international best seller. Set in 18th-century France, Perfume relates the fascinating and horrifying tale of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a person as gifted as he was abominable. Born without a smell of his own but endowed with an extraordinary sense of smell, Grenouille becomes obsessed with procuring the perfect scent that will make him fully human. With brilliant narrative skill Susskind exposes the dark underside of the society through which Grenouille moves and explores the disquieting inner universe of this singularly possessed man. The translation is superb. Essential for literature collections. Ulrike S. Rettig, German Dept., Wellesley Coll., Wellesley, Mass. Copyright 1986 Cahners Business Information.
