This is Kurt Cobains favorite book...
Scentless Apprentice (In Utero) is based on this novel...

Some Extra Information From The Back Cover

Three months on the New York Times bestseller list!
an international phenomenon, #1 in France and Germany, 
Patrick Suskind's riveting novel is a stunning literary 
triumph

A fable of criminal genius...remarkable
The New York Times

Once upon a time, in eighteenth-century France, there lived a human 
monster unlike anything mankind has ever known. Enter the world of 
an evil genius, a murderer so depraved that only the most hideous 
of crimes could satisfy his lust... a killer who lives to possess 
the essence of young virgins...a vampire of scent, whose bloody, 
insane quest takes him beyond the boundaries of love...and death

Reading PERFUME is like being submerged in a dark pool of 
the senses... no reader will be prepared for the shocking 
climax...AN ORIGINAL AND ASTONISHING NOVEL
-People

Mr. Suskind is a perfumer of language
... a remarkable dubut.
-The New York Times Book Review

Immensely seductive entertainment...PERFUME 
gives off the fragance of storytelling at its
best.
-Kansas City Star


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