The 2006 film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, is based on a novel originally published in what language?
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006 German period psychological crime thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Dustin Hoffman. Tykwer, with and Reinhold Heil, also composed the music. The screenplay by Tykwer, Andrew Birkin, and Bernd Eichinger is based on Patrick Süskind's 1985 novel "Perfume". Set in 18th century France, the film tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Whishaw), an olfactory genius, and his homicidal quest for the perfect scent.
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Perfume (novel) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical cross-genre novel (originally published in German as Das Parfum) by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meaning that scents may have.
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The Shoes of the Fisherman (novel) The Shoes of the Fisherman is a novel by the Australian writer Morris West first published in 1963.
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Crabwalk Crabwalk, published in Germany in 2002 as Im Krebsgang, is a novel by Danzig-born German author Günter Grass. As in earlier works, Grass concerns himself with the effects of the past on the present; he interweaves various strands and combines fact and fiction. While the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff by David Frankfurter and the sinking of the ship the "Wilhelm Gustloff" are real events, the fictional members of the Pokriefke family bring these events into our own time.
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The Undying Past The Undying Past is an 1894 novel by the German writer Hermann Sudermann. Its German title is Es war which means "it was". The novel tells the story of how a German man, Leo, returns to his homeland after several year in South America, only to find that Ulrich, his beloved childhood friend, has married a woman with whom Leo has a dark past. The book was published in English in 1906, translated by Beatrice Marshall.
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Hässelby (novel) Hässelby (Original title: "Hässelby") is a novel by the Norwegian author Johan Harstad, published in 2007. The title refers to Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden.
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The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant (originally published in French as "La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte", and translated into English by Sheila Fischman in 1981) is a 1978 novel by Canadian author Michel Tremblay. The story takes play over the course of a single date, May 2, 1942, in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of Montreal. It focuses on several working-class families as well as two prostitutes. It is known across the francophonie as one of the great Canadian pieces of French language literature, utilizing the unique Canadian dialect of French to express the issues of both the early and late twentieth century in Québec and abroad.
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Dancers in Mourning Dancers in Mourning is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1937, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York City; later U.S. versions used the title "Who Killed Chloe?".
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The Lab (novel) "The Lab" is Australian writer Jack Heath's debut novel, first released as a paperback in 2006.
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Joanne Harris Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 July 1964) is an English author, known for her award-winning novel "Chocolat". It was later turned into the 2000 film "Chocolat".
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One, No One and One Hundred Thousand One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (Italian: "Uno, Nessuno e Centomila" ] ) is a 1926 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the "...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life:
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The Last Pope The Last Pope (original: "O Último Papa") is a novel by Portuguese author Luís Miguel Rocha, released in 2006.
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The Judge and His Hangman The Judge and His Hangman (German: Der Richter und sein Henker ) is a 1950 novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It was first published in English in 1954, in a translation by Cyrus Brooks and later in a translation by Therese Pol. A new translation by Joel Agee appeared in 2006, published together with it sequel "Suspicion", as "The Inspector Bärlach Mysteries," with a foreword by Sven Birkerts. Together with Dürrenmatt's "", these stories are considered classics of crime fiction, fusing existential philosophy and the detective genre.
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Imre: A Memorandum Imre: A Memorandum is a 1906 novel by the expatriate American-born author Edward Prime-Stevenson about the homosexual relationship between two men. Written in Europe, it was originally published under the pseudonym "Xavier Mayne" in a limited-edition imprint of 500 copies in Naples, Italy.
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According to Mary Magdalene According to Mary Magdalene (Swedish: "Enligt Maria Magdalena" , 1997) is a novel by the Swedish novelist Marianne Fredriksson. It attempts to portray the life of the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as told by herself. The author claims to have based the book on Gnostic manuscripts, such as the Gospel of Mary, that were discovered in recent times. The English version was published 1999.
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A Escrava Isaura (novel) A Escrava Isaura (] , "Isaura, The Slave Girl") is a novel written by the Brazilian writer Bernardo Guimarães. It was first published in 1875 by Casa Garnier publishers in Rio de Janeiro. With this novel, Bernardo Guimarães became very famous throughout that country, even said to be admired by Brazil's last Emperor Dom Pedro II.
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Querelle of Brest Querelle of Brest (French: "Querelle de Brest" ) is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet. It was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Its protagonist, Georges Querelle, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit. The novel formed the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film, "Querelle" (1982).
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Chitralekha (novel) Chitralekha is a 1934 Hindi novel, written by Bhagwati Charan Verma. The novel is about the philosophy of life and love, sin and virtue. The novel was written, while the author was still practicing law at Hamirpur and brought him immediate fame and starting his literary career. The novel is inspired by the famous novel "Thaïs" by Anatole France.
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The Castle (novel) The Castle (German: "Das Schloss" ] ; also spelled "Das Schloß") is a 1926 novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist known only as K. arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle. Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would end with K. dying in the village, the castle notifying him on his death bed that his "legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking certain auxiliary circumstances into account, he was permitted to live and work there". Dark and at times surreal, "The Castle" is often understood to be about alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business with non-transparent, seemingly arbitrary controlling systems, and the futile pursuit of an unobtainable goal.
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The Diamond Chariot The Diamond Chariot (Russian: Алмазная Колесница , the Russian term for the "Diamond Vehicle" ("kongōjō") school of Tantric Buddhism) is a historical mystery novel by internationally acclaimed Russian detective story writer Boris Akunin, published originally in 2003. It is the tenth novel in Akunin's Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels. As with all of the other Fandorin novels, "The Diamond Chariot" was hugely successful in Russia, selling out its first printing of 200,000 copies in a week.
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Naadan Premam Naadan Premam (English: Love in the Countryside ) is a Malayalam novel written by S. K. Pottekkatt in 1941. It is a short novel written when the author was in Bombay and tells the story of an innocent village belle jilted by a modern man-about-town. It is set entirely in Mukkam, a rustic village on the banks of Iruvanjippuzha, a major tributary of River Chaliyar. Written initially as a film treatment and later converted into a novel, it was serialised in "Kerala Kaumudi" newspaper and released as a book in August 1941. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1972 but was not a success on the screen.
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The Story of the Amulet The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit.