About the Author

Already a literary star in his native Germany, Patrick Suskind was catapulted to international fame in 1985 with the publication of Perfume, which went on to top best-seller lists around the globe. He has received great acclaim for all his subsequent writing and remains a notoriously private person, living close to Munich in the town where he was born. Anthea Bell is the acclaimed translator of Austerlitz by W G Sebald, for which she won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translators' prize from the Goethe Institute, Chess by Stefan Zweig, The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman and the Asterix stories by Goscinny and Uderzo.