Книга «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer»

Про книжку

"In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent..."

Відгуки

"An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution"

guardian

"A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay ... a remarkable debut"

peter ackroyd, the new york times

"Unlike anything else one has read. A phenomenon ... Everyone seems to want to get a whiff of this strange perfume, which will remain unique in contemporary literature"

figaro

"An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy"

daily telegraph