perfume the story of a murderer by patrick süskind

I was frustrated with how they changed the motives of the main character but you guys have convinced me it's worth trying again. Have you ever read a book that completely gripped you, that was unlike any other book you've ever read, a book that you could never get out of your mind?Įdit: I also want to add that it has one of the best endings I've ever read.Įdit 2: I'm going to give the movie adaptation another chance. Very rarely do I read about a character as relatible yet completely alien as the main character in this book. I've never read another book written like this, written through the sense of smell.

Even when I knew what was going to happen it was still incredible. Every single page is gripping and even when I wasn't reading it I was thinking about it. Perfume: the story of a murderer (Penguin Modern Classics):. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Destroyed completely what the book and the character was about.īut my goodness is this book amazingly written. Buy Perfume: the story of a murderer (Penguin Modern Classics) by Süskind, Patrick from Amazons Fiction Books Store. I used to recommend this book to people or friends but people automatically think of the movie which was a terrible adaptation.

Woods.I read this book a long time ago and re read it now and it's just as spectacular as I had always remembered. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. 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. 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. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. Description INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder.

Perfume the story of a murderer by patrick süskind