by Patrick Süskind · Editorial Presença · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722314480
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«O Perfume» is the historical novel by Patrick Süskind, published by Editorial Presença in paperback (273 pages, in Portuguese).
In 18th-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born without his own scent but with a prodigious sense of smell. Grenouille's obsession with capturing the essence of aromas and creating the perfect perfume leads him to commit atrocious crimes. The novel combines historical reconstruction and suspense.
This is the 15th edition, published in 1999. The novel originally appeared in 1985 as «Das Parfum»; the Portuguese translation is by Maria Emília Ferros Moura.
For readers of literary and historical fiction with a taste for suspense and 20th-century European classics.
Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985.
