Patrick Süskind

O Perfume é um romance do escritor alemão Patrick Süskind, publicado pela primeira vez em 1985. Foram vendidos 15 milhões de exemplares em quarenta línguas. O título original alemão é Das Parfum, die Geschichte eines Mörders.

The Pigeon is a novella by Patrick Süskind about the fictional character Jonathan Noel, a solitary Parisian bank security guard who undergoes an existential crisis when a pigeon roosts in front of his one-room apartment's door, prohibiting him entrance to his private sanctuary. The story takes place in the span of one …

A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes - father, mother, brother, sister, a house on a lake, tree-climbing, going to the races, music lessons, a bicycle, a crush on a girl in the class - is bedevilled by the mystifying appearances of the eccentric Mr. Sommer. Moving through the landscape in …

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.

Deparamos neste volume com três histórias, que reflectem, cada uma a seu modo, o estilo inconfundível de Patrick Suskind, e com uma entrevista imaginária em que o autor parodia o universo literário, pondo a nu muito do seu cinismo. Recorde-se que, face ao sucesso obtido pelos seus livros, Suskind se afastou do …

In ON LOVE AND DEATH, Patrick Suskind reveals the hidden source of his mesmerizing fiction: an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death. In this witty and thought-provoking meditation on the two elemental forces of human existence, he brilliantly draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple …