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Leela Patel is sent to live with relatives in Paris after her father is killed in a Nairobi riot. Her mother takes Leela's two little brothers to England. Alone and suddenly transplanted, Leela must reinvent herself and adjust to this foreign place with its foreign language, as she works in her uncle's Indian grocery. She uses her beauty, as well as her uncanny sense of smell, to enter the social, business, and culinary worlds of Paris high society. But her feelings of loss of identity are overwhelming, and Leela soon becomes unmoored, moving from man to man in a series of unsatisfying and often brutal relationships. The exceptional sense of smell that made her a chef of some celebrity has now become her nemesis. Smell traces Leela's journey back to wholeness. No library descriptions found. |
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Un romanzo altalenante. Sembra ci siano molte cose in ballo, molte premesse, si creano aspettative. Ma più si prosegue, più sembra di brancolare nel buio. Ogni filo si sfalda, si perde, si dissolve. L'odore appare come una costante che sottende a tutta la storia e le storie che si dipanano, ma a differenza de "Il Profumo" di Suskind, qui non incide in maniera così determinante nella vita della giovane protagonista. Accattivante nella narrazione, si compiace di piacere. Ma tutto qui. La parte più bella è soltanto l'episodio in metropolitana, straniante, surreale, quotidiano. Tutto il resto sfuma via, come un odore...