Perfume

Patrick Süskind

Original title: Das Parfum

earliest edition we have, 1985 Vintage International, 2006 paperback 272 pages

Huang guan cong shu -- di 3531 zhong

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that 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 to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprent...

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This book in English

John Woods 1 printing we hold · 1986 · Alfred A. Knopf
J.E. Woods 1 printing we hold · 1989 · Penguin Books Ltd
John E. Woods 1 printing we hold · 2006 · Penguin Books

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Editions we hold

El perfume paperback · 2018 · Austral · 308 pages · 9788432233807
O Perfume edition · 2017 · BestBolso · 280 pages · 9788577991143
El perfume paperback · 2016 · Booket · 308 pages · 9788432229268
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Vintage International) edition · 2014 · Vintage · 276 pages · 9780804152976
Il profumo paperback · 2014 · Tea · 263 pages · 9788850236589
El perfume paperback · 2013 · Planeta Colombiana · 320 pages · 9789584229045
Das Parfum edition · 2012 · Diogenes Verlag AG · 336 pages · 9783257601756
El perfume paperback · 2011 · Booket · 320 pages · 9788432251146
Perfume paperback · 2010 · imusti · 272 pages · 9780141041155
Pachnidło edition · 2008 · Świat Książki · 252 pages · 9788324712779
El perfume paperback · 2007 · Seix Barral · 253 pages · 9789507315220
El perfume paperback · 2006 · Booket · 308 pages · 9788432217456

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