The Pigeon

Patrick Süskind — 2015

The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind is dark and haunting tale from the author of the bestselling Perfume - now available in ebook for the first time Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel. Noel who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover - when he opens his front door on a day he believes will be just like any other, he encounters not the desired empty hallway but an unwelcome, diabolical intruder . . . This tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume is a modern classic novella from the much-acclaimed Patrick Süskind

Reviews

mallorie 🦌@mallorie

Jun 19, 2024

very unsatisfying ending… the writing was good enough but somehow managed to drag for such a short book. much preferred perfume, which also had parts that dragged along, but the ending of perfume was good enough to make up for it, this book not so much

Amir M @amyr

Jun 3, 2022

اگر قبلا بهم می‌گفتن یه روز یه کتاب باریک 1350 تومنی (که از سال 84 توی چاپ اول مونده) و ماجرای یک روز معمولیِ یه نگهبان ميانسال بانک رو روایت می‌کنه، به حدی برات جذابه که نمی‌تونی زمینش بذاری و تا این اندازه به فکر می‌بَردت، اصلا باورم نمی‌شد. ولی همه این اتفاقا افتاد! برام جالب بود که "پرفیوم:داستان یک قاتل" رو همین نویسنده نوشته. اولش فکر می‌کردم "کبوتر" ادامهٔ همونه، اما اصلا ناامید نشدم که نیست!