'A tour de force of the imagination.' 'People. The reviews were sensational, word-of-mouth was incredible and now it is back in an all-new trade paperback format. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. When critics and readers caught scent of Patrick Suskind's 'Perfume', it became an instant 'New York Times' bestseller in hardcover and paperback. The difference in time and place forces the reader to make connections between what was occurring in the. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the 'ultimate perfume'-the scent of a beautiful young virgin. In Perfume, Patrick Suskind illustrates the importance of social classes in Germany post-World War 2 through his story of Grenouille, a murderer with a strong sense of smell and a goal to control everyone around him, in 18th century France. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. El grotesco y genial protagonista de El Perfume de Patrick Süskind no despide ningún olor, pero posee un olfato prodigioso que le convierte en un afamado perfumista cuyas creaciones enloquecen a. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. Neuware -An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder.
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