No. 015
Perfume
The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind, translated by John E. Woods
Alfred A. Knopf, 1985
Selected by Avigon Paphitis, Gorgeous Nothings
France, 1738 to 1767. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with an exceptional sense of smell and no scent of his own, and murders young women to capture theirs. Translated into 49 languages; John E. Woods won the 1987 PEN Translation Prize for the English edition.
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