![]() ![]() ![]() For this dark and sinister boy who has no smell himself possesses an absolute sense of smell, and with it he can read the world to discover the hidden truths that elude ordinary men. With mounting unease, yet hypnotized, we see him explore his powers and their effect on the world around him. ![]() Slowly, as we watch Jean-Baptiste Grenouille cling stubbornly to life, we begin to realize that a monster is growing before our eyes. No one will look after him he is somehow too demanding, and, even more disturbing, something is missing: as his wet nurse tries to explain, he doesn’t smell the way a baby should smell indeed, he has no scent at all. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something in the aura of the tiny infant that is unsettling. A baby is born under a fish-monger’s bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Genres: Classics, Horror, Literary Fiction ![]() Published by Penguin Books on September 12, 1986 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind ![]()
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