Isbn: 9780394550848 - perfume: the story of murder (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. …

Hardcover. Zustand: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDLiterary Fiction; Good hard cover with dust jacket, tips bumped, deckled pages, book club, tanning page edge, and prompt shipping with tracking.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-monger's bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something in the aura of the tiny infant that is unsettling. No one will look after him; he is somehow too demanding, and, even more disturbing, something is missing: as his wet nurse tries to explain, he doesn't smell the way a baby should smell; indeed, he has no scent at all.Slowly, as we watch Jean-Baptiste Grenouille cling stubbornly to life, we begin to realize that a monster is growing before our eyes. With mounting unease, yet hypnotized, we see him explore his powers and their effect on the world around him. For this dark and sinister boy who has no smell himself possesses an absolute sense of smell, and with it he can read the world to discover the hidden truths that elude ordinary men. He can smell the very composition of objects, and their history, and where they have been, he has no need of the light, and darkness is not dark to him, because nothing can mask the odors of the universe. As he leaves childhood behind and comes to understand his terrible uniqueness, his obsession becomes the quest to identify, and then to isolate, the most perfect scent of all, the scent of life itself.At first, he hones his powers, learning the ancient arts of perfume-making until the exquisite fragrances he creates are the rage of Paris, and indeed Europe. Then, secure in his mastery of these means to an end, he withdraws into a strange and agonized solitude, waiting, dreaming, until the morning when he wakes, ready to embark on his monstrous quest: to find and extract from the most perfect living creaturesthe most beautiful young virgins in the land that ultimate perfume which alone can make him, too, fully human. As his trail leads him, at an ever-quickening pace, from his savage exile to the heart of the country and then back to Paris, we are caught up in a rising storm of terror and mortal sensual conquest until the frenzy of his final triumph explodes in all its horrifying consequences. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance and the haunting power of a grown-up fairy tale, Perfume is one of the most remarkable novels of the last fifty years.…

Zustand: New. Patrick S&#252skind was born in Ambach, near Munich, in 1949. After a problem with his hands made it impossible for him to pursue his ambitions as a concert pianist, S&#252skind enrolled in the University of Munich, where he studied medieval and mo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Patrick Süskind s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion his sense of smell leads to murder. Translated from the German by John E. Woods and won both the World Fantasy Award and the PEN Translation Prize in 1987. On the cover is the image of Antoine Watteau's painting, Jupiter and Antiope, which depicts a sleeping woman. The book was adapted for film in 2006 by Tom Tykwer, starring Ben Whishaw and Dustin Hoffman. Pages are as new, dust jacket slight rubbing to a corner and a tiny closed tear to the back panel bottom edge, protected in plastic transparency. First printing. 6" - 8¾". book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first American edition. A clean, tight copy. Fine in a fine jacket. Comes with publisher publicity PERFUME postcard. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. Suskind's first novel. Source of the Tom Tykwer and German miniseries. With translations into 49 languages and more than 20 million copies sold worldwide, Perfume is one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the PEN Translation Prize in 1987. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, with just a bit of rubbing. With a corresponding publishers postcard laid in. Haunting German novel about a man who is obsessed by smell, and the mayhem he causes.