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Perfume : the story of a murderer

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Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.

He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover, he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's.

Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in Paris.

Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it, he must kill. And kill. And kill.

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Penguin Books Ltd
0141023597 / 9780141023595
Paperback
833.914
26/01/2006
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
295 p.
18 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986.