Perfume
In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780241975329
- Genre
- HorrorFiction
- Topics
- Obsession and murderScent and identityHistorical Paris society
Awards
- World Fantasy Award for Best NovelWon(1987)
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