Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (German: Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders [das paʁˈfœ̃ː diː ɡəˈʃɪçtə ˈʔaɪnəs ˈmœʁdɐs] (listen)) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meanings that scents may have. …
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (German: Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders [das paʁˈfœ̃ː diː ɡəˈʃɪçtə ˈʔaɪnəs ˈmœʁdɐs] (listen)) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meanings that scents may have. The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent. With translations into 49 languages and more than 20 million copies sold worldwide to date, Perfume is one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. The title remained in bestseller lists for about nine years and received almost unanimously positive national and international critical acclaim. It was translated into English by John E. Woods and won both the World Fantasy Award and the PEN Translation Prize in 1987. Some editions of the novel, including the first, have as their cover image Antoine Watteau's painting, Jupiter and Antiope, which depicts a sleeping woman.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 36980
- BNF ID:
- 12138934z
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Le parfum : histoire d'un meurtrier
354 pages
French language
Published July 25, 1995
- ISBN:
- 978-2-213-02710-4Copied ISBN!
Das Parfum
320 pages
German language
Published July 25, 1994 by Diogenes Verlag.
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- 978-3-257-22800-7Copied ISBN!
El perfume
255 pages
Spanish language
Published July 25, 2003 by Seix i Barral.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-322-1928-3Copied ISBN!
Le parfum
280 pages
French language
Published Sept. 20, 2006
- ISBN:
- 978-2-253-04490-1Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 590645
Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders
320 pages
German language
Published July 25, 1985
- ISBN:
- 978-3-257-01678-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 902617
El perfume: Historia de un asesino
240 pages
Spanish language
Published July 25, 1994
- ISBN:
- 978-968-6005-17-2Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 6271775
Le Parfum- Histoire D 'Un Meurtrier
French language
Published July 25, 2006
- ISBN:
- 978-2-234-04639-9Copied ISBN!
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
263 pages
English language
Published July 25, 1987
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-012083-7Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 343
Le Parfum : histoire d'un meurtrier
French language
Published July 25, 1986
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7242-3163-2Copied ISBN!
Das Parfum
German language
Published July 25, 1987 by Verlag Volk und Welt.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-353-00172-6Copied ISBN!
El Perfume. Historia de un asesino
Spanish language
- ISBN:
- 978-84-322-1698-5Copied ISBN!
Le parfum : histoire d'un meurtrier
French language
Published July 25, 1986
- ISBN:
- 978-2-213-01742-6Copied ISBN!
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