Patrick Süskind

Grenouille kommer till världen under en grov träbänk där hans mor rensar fisk. Platsen är Paris Hallar, tiden 1700-tal. En vanlig människa skulle snabbt gå under i den stinkande och grymma värld som Paris fattigkvarter utgör. Men Grenouille är ingen vanlig människa. Han saknar helt kroppslukt och människor blir, utan att förstå varför, illa till […]

‘Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing’ Observer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human’s. Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most […]

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives […]