Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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"Written by: Patrick Suskind Translator: John F. Woods Cover by: Antoine Watteau Publisher: Diogenes (Germany), Alfred A. Knopf (US), and Hamish Hamilton (UK) Published: January 1, 1985 โPeople left him alone. And that was all he wanted.โ "
" Subject: The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell. He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by a"