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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

By Peter Høeg
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg digital book - Fable

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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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“I enjoyed parts of this book. It’s the second time I have read it, the last must be thirty years ago soon after it came out. Then I see that it has been made into a TV series so I thought I would read it again before seeing it. It is an intriguing story set in the darkness and coldness of Scandinavia. However, it was not a page turner for me, and took several weeks to read. Perhaps what stands out most of all were the descriptions of snow and ice and the reflections on Greenland and life as a Greenlander in Danish society. Now when Greenland has hit the news because of apparent American interests there it is fascinating to read about this (to me) little known land. The setting amidst seemingly endless ice and snow is dark and the story is as much a mystery as a crime thriller. Beautifully written certainly. Will be interesting to see the screenplay.”

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