Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg, published by Harvill Press in 1997, is a compelling narrative that intertwines mystery and suspense. The story follows Smilla Jaspersen, a woman deeply connected to snow and ice, who becomes embroiled in a chilling investigation after a young Greenlander boy falls to his death from an apartment building in Copenhagen. While authorities deem the incident an accident, Smilla is convinced of foul play and sets out to uncover the truth, navigating a world filled with scientific inquiry and personal memories.
Readers will find themselves drawn into Smilla’s journey as she meticulously follows a trail of clues that leads her back to her icy homeland. The narrative explores themes of crime and revelation, as Smilla confronts the lies surrounding the boy’s death and the secrets hidden beneath the snow. This edition spans 409 pages and is presented in English, offering a rich exploration of the intersection between personal history and broader societal issues within the framework of a gripping mystery.
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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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