Perfume

About This Novel

Mo Yan, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, highly recommends it; it was a super best-seller in German in the 20th century, with sales of more than 10 million copies worldwide; the film adaptation of the same name has a global box office of over 100 million, and Ben Whishaw performed it with all his heart. In eighteenth-century Paris, Grenouille was born in the dirtiest and smelliest fish stall in the city. He was born without body odor, but he is an amazing olfactory genius, able to distinguish and remember all the smells in the world. In order to pursue the most perfect fragrance and preserve it, the young Grenouille underwent many hardships and gradually grew from an apprentice in a perfume shop to a master of perfume making. After countless attempts and disappointments, he finally discovered that only certain red-haired girls exuded the perfect scent he was looking for. For this reason, he did not hesitate to commit crimes repeatedly, extracting their body fragrance to make a mysterious "perfume", and playing with the world at his fingertips. However, people's endless pursuit and obsession could not bring him satisfaction. In the end, he chose to disappear into the short-lived kingdom of smell in his own unique way... The novel's wild imagination, bizarre and magical plot, and superb capture and description of smell have all been repeatedly praised and quoted. The author uses the tragic life of the protagonist Grenouille, an olfactory genius, to reflect on the survival dilemma of individuals falling into emptiness and alienation in the rationally driven modern society.

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