by Patrick Süskind · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788432251146
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«El perfume: Historia de un asesino» is the novel by Patrick Süskind, published by Booket in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
In eighteenth-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, endowed with a prodigious sense of smell and lacking his own scent, becomes obsessed with creating the perfect perfume. His quest to capture the essence of beauty leads him down a dark path, to the murder of young virgins to distill their aroma and dominate the will of others.
Translation by Pilar Giralt Gorina. Novel originally published as «Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders»; this edition is part of Booket's Bestseller collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and literary fiction, with historical atmosphere and dark tone.
Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985.
