Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing . . . menace conveyed with all the power of the writer's elegant unease'
Observer

'Born in sweaty, fetid eighteenth-century Paris, Grenouille is distinctive even in infancy. He has "the finest nose in Paris and no personal odour". With with, a Gothic imagination and considerable originality, Süskind has developed this simple idea into a fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity ... Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading'
Literary Review

'A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay ...a remarkable debut
Peter Ackroyd, The New York Times Book Review

'Unlike anything else one has read. A phenomenon ...Everyone seems to want to get a whiff of this strange perfume, which will remain unique in contemporary literature'
Figaro

'An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy'
Daily Telegraph

Genres: Horror - Classics - Historical Fiction - Thriller - Mystery - Crime - German Literature
Condition: Good
Published: First published in 1985. This edition published in 1987 by Penguin Books
Pages: 263
ISBN: 014009993x
Weight: 161g