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Die Taube

Pages
135
Published
1987
Language
English

Synopsis

A reclusive bank guard's meticulously ordered life is thrown into chaos when a dead pigeon appears on his doorstep. This strange event marks the beginning of a peculiar and unsettling journey for the man who prefers the company of inanimate objects to people. Discover the quiet unraveling of a man who finds himself at the mercy of the absurd.

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Patrick Süskind

Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter, best known for his internationally acclaimed novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985. Süskind was born in Ambach am Starnberger See, near Munich in Germany. His father was writer and journalist Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, who worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and is famous as the co-author of the well-known Aus dem Wörterbuch des Unmenschen (From the Dictionary of an Inhuman), a critical collection of essays on the lan...

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