Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Author: [Germany] Pa. Suskind Translator: Li Qinghua Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Douban Books Top 250

The book describes how Grenouille suffered since childhood and was born with a special sense of smell. He realized that only the body odor of young girls could make people infatuated, so he killed 26 girls and extracted their body odor to make a magical perfume. When his crime was exposed and he was taken to the execution ground, he escaped back to Paris with the special fragrance on his body, but was cut into pieces and eaten by gangsters.

Patrick Sǖskind was born in 1949 in Ambach, on the shores of Lake Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany. In his early years, he studied and researched medieval history and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence, France. Later, he made a living by writing film storyboards. His first published work was the play "Double Bass". The play was first performed in Munich in September 1981, and later many theaters performed it. It was translated into many languages ​​during this period, which won Sǖskind a reputation in the literary world. In 1984, Sǖskind completed his first novel "Perfume", which caused a sensation in the German literary world after its publication. After "Perfume", Sǖskind wrote the novella "The Pigeon" in a classical style. The novel describes the monotonous and boring life of a janitor in a bank in Paris. The first edition sold as many as 100,000 copies in early 1987. According to statistics from Der Spiegel magazine, "The Dove" and "Perfume" have been among the top ten best-selling books of German serious literature since April 1987, and Süskind caused a sensation in the German literary world with it.