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Review: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Posted on June 17, 2012 by E.F. Sunland
This book is weird; just a warning. But it’s weird in a clever way, so read it. Perfume is heavy in detail and light in terms of plot points, so here, to minimize spoilers, is the description from the dust jacket: “In the slums…
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