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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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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....

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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

I first saw the film. You couldn't find it in the video store under "Smilla" because it was translated (into Serbian) as "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow." No, this is not Serbian originality: the British translation is the one with "feeling", the US one is "sensible." But it's the same book.I guess I never knew that Greenland was a Danish province, or shall we say, a colony. So here is a book that draws together a number of interesting threads: murder mystery, post-colonialism, immigration,

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

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

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

Found this sorting out my stored books... Don't remember a thing... So, I guess it was a 2-star.

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,