Patrick Süskind

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Perfume

The Pigeon

A Novel

History

Letters 1944-1959

And Other Dystopian Novellas

The Portrait of My Double

And Other Stories

Voices of the Fallen Heroes

There Lives a Young Girl In Me Who Will Not Die

The Princess of 72nd Street

Exiles

Poems

Visual Politics

Art on My Mind

Lies and Sorcery

The Experience of Pain

The Prime of Life

The Blood of Others

In This Sign

Badenheim 1939

Katerina

The Story of a Life

Selected Poems

Manga Edition

The Outsider

No Name in the Street

The Story of a Murderer

A downloadable audiobook edition of the modern classic Perfume read by Sean Barrett. Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it he must kill. And kill. And kill...

Patrick Süskind was born near Munich in 1949 and studied medieval and modern history at the University of Munich. His first play, The Double Bass, was written in 1980 and became an international success. His first novel, Perfume was also an internationally acclaimed bestseller and continues to be considered a classic. 
 
He is also the author of The Pigeon and Mr. Summer's Story, and a coauthor of the enormously successful German television series Kir Royal. Patrick Süskind lives and writes in Munich.

Penguin presents the downloadable audiobook edition of the modern classic Perfume, read by the actor Sean Barrett. 
 
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it he must kill. And kill. And kill...

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