# The Pigeon

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- Book: [The Pigeon](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon) ([The Pigeon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-suskind/the-pigeon.md))
- Authors: [Patrick Süskind](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-suskind)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-533-6
- Published: 2015-06-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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