The Pigeon (novella)

The Pigeon

First edition cover
Author	Patrick Süskind
Original title	Die Taube
Translator	John E. Woods
Language	German
Genre	Novella
Publication date	1987
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	June 29, 1989
Pages	77
ISBN	9780140105834

The Pigeon (German: Die Taube) is a 1987 novella by German writer Patrick Süskind. Taking place in a single day, the story follows a solitary Parisian bank security guard who undergoes an existential crisis when a pigeon roosts in front of his one-room apartment's door, prohibiting him entrance to his private sanctuary. The book was Süskind's follow-up to his nine-year bestselling first novel, Perfume and drew comparisons to the work of Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe. ^[1]