Perfume by Patrick Suskind

'Born in sweaty, fetid eighteenth-century Paris, Grenouille is distinctive even in infancy.  He has "the finest nose in Paris and no personal odour".  With wit, a Gothic imagination and considerable originality, Suskind has developed this simple idea into a fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity...Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading'  Literary Review.

'His reeking pages offer not only a rattling good treatise on scent manufacture, but a sly denunciation of human depravity, an exercise in the chillingly surreal and an excursion into the stink and sweetness of old France'  David Hughes in The Mail on Sunday.

'An appalling Lebenslauf, which permits the reader to prowl the streets and alleys of 18th-century France...Until the very last page, the masterly blend of delirious self-disgust and bland irony never falters'  Sunday Times.

Soft cover, fair condition.  263 pages, all intact, if somewhat yellowed.  A good read.