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From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang of a father's aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first kiss to the anodyne void of disinfectant and death, this is a decadently original olfactory memoir. In sixty-three elusive episodes we roam freely across the countryside of Lorraine, North-East France, from kitchen to farm to a lover's bed. Recognising the bittersweet nostalgia of a scent that slips away on the summer breeze, Claudel demonstrates again his impeccable grasp of the personal and the universal, interweaved with a rare self-deprecating charm. This is an evocative patchwork at once earthy and ethereal, erotic and heart-breaking. Claudel permits us a glimpse of moments that have driven him to delight or despair, creating through the fading aromas of the past fragments of humour, insight and quite intangible beauty.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Memoirs

• Full title: Parfums
• Author: Philippe Claudel
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9780857052728
• ISBN: 0857052721
• ID: 02756181
• Weight: 266 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 194 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. October 2014

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