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In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.

Translated from the German by John E. Woods.]]> 39402 3.81 14917 1822 58512 3.53 16609 2462 60286 4.08 2767 309 1985 88077 0679772871 9780679772873 234 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171125430m/88077.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171125430s/88077.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88077.The_Magic_Mountain 4.07 1887 19405 3.93 9524 829 60286 4.08 2767 309 1924 80890 0679417370 9780679417378 52 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223481151m/80890.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223481151s/80890.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80890.Buddenbrooks_The_Decline_of_a_Family 4.09 690 19405 3.93 9524 829 60286 4.08 2767 309 43226 4.09 724 58 1901 88076 1400040019 9781400040018 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248931768m/88076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1248931768s/88076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88076.Joseph_and_His_Brothers 4.14 113
This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event.

Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts–The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider–as a unified narrative, a “mythological novel” of Joseph’s fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur.

Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of Joseph and His Brothers that is worthy of Mann’s achievement, revealing the novel’s exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse, and sublime.]]> 19405 3.93 9524 829 60286 4.08 2767 309 1942 2575050 156478083X 9781564780836 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2575050.Nobodaddy_s_Children 5.00 2 179391 4.43 122 11 60286 4.08 2767 309 1995 3857296 0405066600 9780405066603 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3857296.The_Middle_East 0.0 0 60286 4.08 2767 309 1976 6042007 0815140711 9780815140719 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6042007.Advances_in_Plastic_and_Reconstructive_Surgery 0.0 0 984036 0.0 0 0 2016082 0.0 0 0 2016083 0.0 0 0 2016084 0.0 0 0 60286 4.08 2767 309 1997 6137703 3805571674 9783805571678 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6137703.Key_Issues_in_Plastic_and_Cosmetic_Surgery_17 0.0 0 984036 0.0 0 0 2762071 0.0 0 0 2016083 0.0 0 0 2762070 0.0 0 0 2016084 0.0 0 0 60286 4.08 2767 309 2001 7012624 0307271048 9780307271044 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7012624-one-more-story 0.0 0 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): thirteen new stories from one of Germany's finest writers.

New Year's Eve 1999, Berlin. At a party to kick off the twenty-first century, Frank Reichert meets Julia, his lost love. Since their separation in the fall of 1989, he's drifted through life like an exile, remaining apathetic toward the copy-shop business he started even as it flourished apace. Nothing has the power to move him now: his whole life lies under the shadow of Julia, of the idea that things could have worked out differently. But as night draws on to day, the promised end becomes an unexpected new beginning.

Ingo Schulze introduces us to characters as they stray outside the confines of East Germany into other, newer lives: into Egypt, where the betrayal of a lover turns an innocent vacation into a nightmare; into Vienna, where life starts to mimic art; into Estonia, where we meet a retired circus bear in an absurd (and absurdly hilarious) dilemma—or as they simply stay put, struggling to maintain their sense of themselves as the world around them changes.

Along with these tragicomic tales are some of the most beautiful love stories ever to feature cell phones. And throughout, Schulze's masterfully controlled plain style conceals an understated, but finally breathtaking, intricacy.]]> 174045 3.45 77 13 60286 4.08 2767 309 2010