Smilla's Sense of Snow
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Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime, an Inuit expat must confront a buried secret back home to bring a murderer to justice in this "finger-biting Danish suspense novel" (Chicago Tribune) from the internationally renowned author of The Woman and the Ape."Astonishing."--Los Angeles Times
"A superbly constructed thriller."--People
"A book of profound intelligence."--The New Yorker
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, People, Entertainment Weekly
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. . . .
He worked as a sailor, ballet dancer, and actor before becoming a writer. A History of Danish Dreams (1988), his first novel, received favorable reviews. More than thirty nations have published his novels.
Martin Aitken, a linguist with a PhD, gave up his university position to translate literature. His novels have been published on both sides of the Atlantic, and his translations of Danish short stories and poems have appeared in magazines such as The Literary Review, AGNI, Boston Review, and A Public Place. He lives in a little town in Denmark.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385315142 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385315147 |
| Title | Smilla's Sense of Snow |
| Author | Peter Hoeg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1995-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Prizes | Winner of Dilys Award 1994, Commended for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1994, Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1995 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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