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Smilla's Sense of Snow

Peter Høeg

Paperback | Pages: 469 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 38585 Users | 2194 Reviews

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Title	:	Smilla's Sense of Snow
Author	:	Peter Høeg
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 469 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1995 by Delta (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Thriller. Cultural. Denmark. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Mystery Thriller

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She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love.  She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land.  And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... It happened in the Copenhagen snow.  A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building.  While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident.  But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own.  Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.  For her dead neighbor, and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice....

Details Books Conducive To Smilla's Sense of Snow

Original Title:	Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne
ISBN:	0385315147 (ISBN13: 9780385315142)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Smilla Jaspersen, Professor Loyen, Elsa Lubing, Inspector Ravn, Captain Lukas
Setting:	Copenhagen(Denmark) Denmark Greenland
Literary Awards:	CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction (1994), Dilys Award (1994), Glass Key Award (1993), Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1994), Deutscher Krimi Preis for 2. Platz International (1995) Palle Rosenkrantz Prisen (1992)

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This was the third book I took with me for the Second Annual Cat-Sitting event at my brother's place. He has the unfortunate luck of having his birthday in the middle of August, the hottest time of the year, and he goes off to have adventures with his lady-friend, giving me the opportunity to sit in his very hot house that does not have air conditioning to keep an eye on his cats, take advantage of his streaming Netflix, and read until my eyes bleed.Last year one of the books I took with me was

After an initially over-enthusiastic 5 stars (which prompted consternation from some parties!) and then a too-sober 3 stars, I'm settling on four stars for this intelligent, brooding, minutely researched, acutely observed thriller. I think I wanted to give it five stars for two reasons: I read some negative reviews on this very webpage, and, finding them idiotic, wanted to vindicate this novel. I also cannot get out of my head the image of the Swiss German cook Urs using a freshly baked,

Smilla is, I think, my hands-down favourite fictional character. Which makes it easy for me to keep returning to this book. It's a translation from Danish (by Tiina Nunnally) and beautiful and technical and never sentimental, and it touches on issues I find particularly interesting such as European culture versus aboriginal culture (in this case Danish vs. Greenlandic) and the related issues of language and identity. Peter Hoeg has a mind that is both scientific and whimsical and I find that

Oh my, this book is bad. The premise is an interesting enough hook - a boy has fallen off a snow laden roof. The police file it as an accident, but Smilla, with an extraordinary feeling for snow, thinks not. Smilla's intuition that a banal letter found in the boy's apartment about his mother's pension might hold a clue to the boy's death leads her to Elsa Lubing, signee of the letter. Elsa gives Smilla the key and secret code that allow her to break into the Cryolite Corporation's archives

Before I visited Europe, my friends would all tell me to visit Copenhagen. They said that its one of the most beautiful European cities and the Danes are the friendliest people in Europe. Well, not in this book. Copenhagen is a dark, cold and corrupt place and the Danes, a shifty, secretive and lethal bunch.Enter Smilla, one of the more interesting protagonists Ive come across, who is half Danish and half Inuit. Here lies the dichotomy of her character: shes never truly comfortable with who she

Complex characters, dizzying plot, starkly beautiful language, and tremendous psychological insights.

Miss Smilla and her cast of characters were so quirky that after 100 pages I found all this quirk over the front of my shirt, all over the dining table (well, I call it a dining table) and stuck between the keys on my keyboard. Had to get it out with a Swiss Army knife, once it had dried. Sent a sample off to the lab and the results came back "two parts David Lynch, three parts frankly unbelievable heroine, three parts uninvolving plot which moves at the speed of an exhausted glacier". As I