Perfume - Penguin Modern Classics Patrick Süskind

Categories: Contemporary Fiction Classic Books & Novels Crime Crime Fiction Historical Crime Historical Crime Historical Fiction Perfume - Penguin Modern Classics Patrick Süskind Reprint Paperback (06 Feb 2020) 'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublime perfumes in France. Yet there is one scent he cannot capture: the scent of an innocent young virgin. In order to perfect his experiments, he must have this final ingredient, at any cost. A cult international bestseller, Perfume is a bewitching, darkly humorous fable of desire, obsession and death. Book information ISBN: 9780241420294 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Classics Pub date: 06 Feb 2020 Edition: Reprint DEWEY: 833.914 DEWEY edition: 23 Language: English Sales rank: 4622 Number of pages: 304 Weight: 226g Height: 129mm Width: 198mm Spine width: 14mm