Books like Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Born in an eighteenth-century Paris fish market with no scent of his own and the keenest nose in France, Grenouille apprentices as a perfumer and begins killing young women to distill their smell.
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The Pigeon
Jonathan Noel, a Parisian bank guard who has lived by strict routine for decades, finds a pigeon in the corridor outside his room, and his ordered existence begins to collapse.
Lapvona
In a medieval village in a year of drought and famine, Marek, the abused, motherless son of the shepherd, is drawn by a violent accident into the household of the depraved lord Villiam, while the blind midwife Ina tends to forces the priest would rather not see.
The Tin Drum
A boy born with a scream that can shatter glass drums his way through the horrors of Nazi Germany, refusing to grow up in a world not worth being adult in.
Cat and Mouse
In wartime Danzig, Pilenz tells the story of his schoolfriend Joachim Mahlke, a boy with an enormous Adam's apple who dives into a sunken minesweeper in the harbour and becomes a local legend.
Père Goriot
In a shabby Paris boarding house, the ambitious young Eugène de Rastignac watches old Goriot give everything to his two daughters, who use him and leave him to die.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
A deformed bell-ringer in medieval Paris falls in love with a beautiful dancer, and the cathedral that shelters him becomes a battleground between compassion and cruelty.
Geek Love
The owners of a failing travelling carnival breed their own attractions by dosing themselves with drugs and radiation during pregnancy, and their albino hunchbacked daughter tells what became of the family.
Wise Blood
A young man in the rural American South is consumed by a grotesque religious vision, and the novel's dark comedy conceals a genuine theological horror.
Reflections in a Golden Eye
On an army post in the South in peacetime, a repressed officer, his careless wife, her lover and a silent young private circle one another in a short novel of watching and obsession.
Tyll
A jester from 17th-century folklore wanders the scorched landscape of the Thirty Years' War, outliving kings and exposing their folly.
The Phantom of the Opera
A disfigured musical genius living in the cellars of the Paris Opéra falls obsessively in love with a soprano in the chorus, and the managers upstairs keep finding notes from Box Five.
A Feast of Snakes
In Mystic, Georgia, during the annual rattlesnake roundup, a former high school football star stuck with a liquor-store job and a broken marriage feels the weekend's frenzy pushing him towards violence.