Perfume : The Story of a Murderer Condition:Very Good of a child

of a child

and to be master of the kitchen

a man who had once been king

Bill Johnson

the Best Book for Younger Readers - Red House Children's Book Award

Perfume : The Story of a Murderer Condition:Very Good of a childAn acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passionhis sense of smellleads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth century France, the infant Jean Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime giftan absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer