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| Title | : | Smilla's Sense of Snow |
| Author | : | Peter Høeg |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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 |
Peter Høeg
Paperback | Pages: 469 pages Rating: 3.73 | 38585 Users | 2194 Reviews
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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....
Describe Books 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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Ratings: 3.73 From 38585 Users | 2194 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Smilla's Sense of Snow
Nordic noir avant la lettre? I bought this kind of by accident at a charity shop. If Id realized it was essentially a murder mystery, I never would have taken a chance on this 1992 international bestseller. That would have been too bad, as I think its much more interesting than your average crime thriller (she says snobbishly). For one thing, the narrator and would-be detective is Smilla Jaspersen: a 37-year-old mathematician and former Arctic expedition navigator with a Danish father andIt was an intense read. It had me confused from time to time. The emotional apathy and disconnection of the characters confused me here and there. For instance, people want to kill each others and then sit out on the deck of a ship and smoke a cigarette together. The death of a little boy had an emotionally-challenged woman, Miss Smilla, who knew everything about snow and ice, start asking questions. In the process she unknowingly opens up a can of worms...Yes, definitely worms...It was not a
Smilla Jaspersen, a Greenlander by birth now residing in Copenhagen, late thirties, single, lonely, moody, depressive, seemingly with a grudge against everything, the sort of girl you would take on a first date, ask to be excused to go to the bathroom only you make for the exit.But somewhere in the perpetual darkness she finds it in her heart to investigate the death of Isaiah, a small boy she befriended in her apartment block, who apparently fell of the roof whilst playing in the snow, but
I found this a long and difficult book to read. Before deciding to read this book for the summer read athon, I checked out some of the reviews. The reviews were very polarised, two camps, loved it or hated it. Not to be put off I chose to purchase and read this for the Christmas, Snow theme. What I didn't bargain for was a long winded dissertation on the plight of Inuits living in Greenland under Danish rule. This just went on and on. As for the heroin, Smilla Jarpersen, what a depressing,
It took me two months to finish this book and not until the last three weeks and 150 pages of that endeavor did I realize that it is actually quite terrible. It's been quite awhile since I've felt so cheated, nay--betrayed--by a novel. Because when you begin this book it is primarily concerned with the slow unfolding of character. You are tied to the titular Miss Smilla and her cynical absolutist world view. It doesn't take long to figure out that she has no interest in providing you with a
Interesting read. My first time to read a book from Denmark and originally written in Danish. My first time to read some facts about Greenland and the Arctic Circle. My first time to learn many things about snow. Oh snow! I have not seen snow-covered ground. Neither have I seen snow falling from the sky. This book made me want to go to Greenland and learn all the things Smilla Jasperson knows and senses about snow.The story is about Smilla, who is half-Danish (father) and half-Greenlander
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
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