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Perfume

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Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.

He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's.

Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in Paris.

Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it he must kill. And kill. And kill ...

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Product Details
Penguin Classics
0141198141 / 9780141198149
Paperback / softback
833.914
30/12/2010
United Kingdom
English
304 pages
129 x 198 mm, 224 grams
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