by Patrick Süskind · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432219283
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«El perfume» is the novel by Patrick Süskind, published by Seix Barral in paperback (255 pages, in Spanish).
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an orphan with a prodigious sense of smell in eighteenth-century France, becomes an apprentice perfumer. His obsession with capturing the essence of beauty leads him to commit crimes to create the perfect perfume, in a disturbing story about obsession and the power of smell.
Translation by Pilar Giralt Gorina of the German original Das Parfum, published in 1985. Winner of the World Fantasy Award. Edition from the Biblioteca Formentor collection.
For readers of contemporary classics and historical fiction with suspense elements, as well as followers of twentieth-century German literature.
Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985.
