From the author of Perfume and The Pigeon, this story revolves around the narrator's relationship with his double-bass. The play has been performed all over Germany and at the Edinburgh Festival.

The Double Bass

Literature & Fiction

Patrick Süskind

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pigeon" is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover. When Jonathan opens his front door on a day he believes will be just like any other, he encounters not the desired empty hallway but an unwelcome, diabolical intruder...

The Pigeon

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Granta 35, Spring 1991: The Unbearable Peace

John, Berger

nadine-gordimer

John Le Carre'

Granta Books

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

The Pigeon (Penguin International Writers)

An international sensation from the moment of its publication in Germany last year, this is one of the most extraordinary novels published in years: the story of a monster loose in 18th-century France and his quest for the perfect perfume.

Perfume: Complete and Unabridged

Literary

Penguin Audio

Perfume : The Story of a Murderer

Erotica

Perfume

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, UK

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 odor he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it he must kill. And kill. And kill...

Penguin

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Popular Penguins)

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