![]() ![]() ***Part fable, part surreal fantasy, part novel of suspense, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is the work of a brilliant talent. ![]() Then a chance meeting with an ageing parfumier on the Pont au Change, during which he exactly replicates a perfume for the old man, sets Grenouille on the road to fame. The other - the cause of his rejection - is that he has no smell of his own. One is that he is blessed with an extraordinarily sharp sense of smell. But as he grows up in isolation two facts begin to dawn on him. ![]() ![]() ***As a human being, Grenouille is handicapped from the start, and at the same time outstandingly gifted. For his brutal birth signals the beginning of one of the strangest lives ever imagined, and a career of very violent genius. ***'This is the story of one Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born under a fishmonger's bloody slab in eighteenth-century Paris. Slight nick to the top of the spine of the dustwrapper. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper. ***Near fine in olive green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on a paper label to the spine. This printing has four reviews of "Der Kontrabaß on the front flap of the dustwrapper, and no barcode on the back panel. First edition, later printing - published in German as "Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Morders" by Diogenes Verlag AG in Zurich in 1985, but probably a later printing, with the printer's code 500/87/24/16 implying a 1988 printing. ![]()
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