by Patrick Süskind · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213027104
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«Le Parfum» is the novel by Patrick Süskind, published by Fayard in paperback (361 pages, in French).
In eighteenth-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with a prodigious sense of smell and an obsession: to capture the scents of the world. His talent makes him an apprentice to a perfumer, but his ambition goes beyond the craft and leads him toward a sinister plan to create the perfect essence.
Work originally published in 1985 in German as «Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders»; this French edition uses the translation by Bernard Lortholary.
For readers of historical fiction, classics and thrillers, interested in an eighteenth-century setting and a singular protagonist.
Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985.
