Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Vintage International)

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the basic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what occurs when one man’s indulgence in his biggest ardour—his sense of scent—results in homicide.

Within the slums of eighteenth-century France, the toddler Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one chic present—an absolute sense of scent. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a outstanding perfumer who teaches him the traditional artwork of blending valuable oils and herbs. However Grenouille’s genius is such that he’s not glad to cease there, and he turns into obsessive about capturing the smells of objects comparable to brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wooden. Then sooner or later he catches a touch of a scent that can drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “final fragrance”—the scent of a gorgeous younger virgin. Informed with dazzling narrative brilliance, Fragrance is a hauntingly highly effective story of homicide and sensual depravity. 

Translated from the German by John E. Woods.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JTCJE52
Writer ‏ : ‎ Classic; Reprint version (Could 14, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ Could 14, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File measurement ‏ : ‎ 2469 KB
Textual content-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Display Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Phrase Smart ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print size ‏ : ‎ 276 pages