Timothy Schaffert


The Perfume Thief

Schaffert, Timothy | THE PERFUME THIEF


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780385548151

En reformerad bedragare i 1940-talets Paris navigerar kärlek och motstånd under nazisternas ockupation.

  • Följ med Clementine i 1940-talets Paris.

  • En fängslande berättelse om kärlek och motstånd.

  • Utgiven som häftat band, 2021.

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Ny
Pris:
REA-pris231 kr

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Random House US
ISBN: 9780385548151

Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2021-08-03

Förlagets information

Clementine is a seventy-two year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakech, and finally the bordellos of Paris, where she settles down in 1930 and opens a shop bottling her favourite extracts for the ladies of the cabarets. Now it's 1941 and Clem's favourite haunt, Madame Boulette's, is crawling with Nazis, while Clem's people—the outsiders, the artists, and the hustlers who used to call it home—are disappearing. Clem's first instinct is to go to ground—it's a frigid Paris winter and she's too old to put up a fight. But when the cabaret's prize songbird, Zoe St. Angel, recruits Clem to steal the recipe book of a now-missing famous Parisian perfumer, she can't say no. Her mark is Oskar Voss, a Francophile Nazi bureaucrat, who wants the book and Clem's expertise to himself. Hoping to buy the time and trust she needs to pull off her scheme, Clem decides to tell Voss the real story of the life and loves she came to Paris to escape. But Clem doesn't have much practice telling the truth and it turns out to be more dangerous than she could have imagined. Complete with romance, espionage, champagne towers, and haute couture, this full-tilt sensory experience is a dazzling portrait of the underground resistance of twentieth-century Paris and a passionate love letter to the power of beauty and community in the face of insidious hate.

Vanliga frågor om The Perfume Thief av Timothy Schaffert

'The Perfume Thief' handlar om Clementine, en sjuttio-tvåårig reformerad bedragare som navigerar livet under nazisternas ockupation av Paris, där hon rekryteras för att stjäla en receptbok från en försvunnen parfymerare.

Boken utforskar teman som motstånd, gemenskap och skönhet, särskilt hur dessa element kan fungera som en motvikt mot hat och förtryck under andra världskriget.

Detta exemplar av 'The Perfume Thief' är en ny häftad bok, publicerad av Random House US den 3 augusti 2021, och är skriven på engelska.

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