{"product_id":"perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer","title":"Perfume : The Story of a Murderer - Paperback","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution'\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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. 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 . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity ... Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterary Review\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay ... A remarkable début' Peter Ackroyd, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Unlike anything else one has read. A phenomenon ... [It] will remain unique in contemporary literature' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFigaro\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32361378938946,"sku":"","price":399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/1030_74dc57a3-e647-45a1-a73c-e2699fcce0b1.jpg?v=1610114635","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}