Roman o jednom ubojici i njegovom istraživačkom putovanju u carstvo mirisa; roman o ubojici kojeg na zločin nisu nagonile mržnja, ljubav ili očajanje, već jedino njegov nos. Žrtve bijahu mlade djevojke. Priča puna duha, dosjetljivosti, mate, a ispričana tako dobro kao rijetko koja druga. "Parfem! Sretan događaj u književnosti njemačkoga jezika." Nürnberger Nachrichten
Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941. Before long, however, Missie became sickened by the nature of Nazi-rule.
Jean-Babtiste Grenouille má vlastnost génia - svým nosem dokáže zachytit, detailně popsat a charakterizovat všechny vůně, které se kolem něj mihnou. Okamžitě rozpozná jejich složení, míru použitých komponentů, čehož využívá pro výrobu těch nejúžasnějších parfémů na světě. Zoufale však touží po vytvoření dokonalé vůně. Naprosto zbavený citu se rozhodne vytvořit démonickou vůni, jejíž základní esencí bude vůně mladé dívky, nevinné a čisté. A učiní pro to vše...
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A magnificent example of Widmer's characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination. In the wildly entertaining novel The Blue Soda Siphon, the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to find his parents frantic because their son is missing. Then, in another switch, the young boy that he was back then turns up in the present of the early 1990s, during the Gulf War, where he meets himself as an older man, and meets his adult self's young daughter. These head-scratching, hilarious time shifts happen when both the adult narrator and his childhood self go to the cinema and see films, the subjects of which echo their own lives. Translated into English for the first time by Donal McLaughlin, this novel, in which the eponymous blue soda siphon bottle is a recurring symbol, is a magnificent example of Urs Widmer's characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination.