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Rest of the World - Standard 15-20 working days.Europe - Tracked and Signed 4-7 working days.Free Click and Collect at Daunt Books Marylebone.If one or more items are not available when you place your order there may be a delay in dispatch, so that we can send your items in as few parcels as possible. Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. Patrick S skind lives and writes in Munich. Summer’s Story, and a coauthor of the enormously successful German television series Kir Royal. He is also the author of The Pigeon and Mr. His first novel, Perfume, became an internationally acclaimed bestseller. His first play, The Double Bass, was written in 1980 and became an international success. He studied medieval and modern history at the University of Munich. A phenomenon … Everyone seems to want to get a whiff of this strange perfume, which will remain unique in contemporary literature’ Figaro’An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy’ Daily Telegraph’Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing’ ObserverPatrick S skind was born near Munich, in 1949. ”An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution’ Guardian’A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity … Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading’ Literary Review’A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay … a remarkable debut’ Peter Ackroyd, The New York Times Book Review’Unlike anything else one has read. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history- to the fleeting realm of scent. Patrick S skind’s Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris’In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.

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