Perfume : the story of a murderer /
Patrick Süskind ; translated from the German by John E. Woods.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 1986.
- 255 p. ; 23 cm.
Translation of: Das Parfum.
Wilson's Fiction Library Journal
In 1738, an orphaned child is given to the monks as a charity case. Although he has no smell at all himself, he possesses an absolute sense of smell. He can smell the very composition of objects, and their history.