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13 July 2017

Review #626: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind



My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ”

----Christian Dior


Patrick Süskind, a late German writer and screenwriter's internationally, critically acclaimed and an award-winning novel Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders translated into English with the title, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer The German novel set in the backdrop of 18th century France that rocked the whole world with its intensity, level of fantasy and surrealism, historical realism, sensuality and scents surrounding around a young man, with a god-gifted talented to identify the subtle and underlying scents of worldly things as well as of human beings.