Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Smilla's Sense of Snow (also published as Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow), is a book by Danish author Peter Høeg. It is a prosaic thriller, following the main protagonist Smilla Jaspersen, as she investigates the death of a child she befriended. The story begins in Copenhagen, where the child has plunged to his death from a snowy rooftop. Smilla,an outsider in Danish society,who was raised as a Greenlandic Inuit, knows there is more to the apparent accident than meets the eye, because she has a feeling for snow. Her investigations lead her to conspiracies in Copenhagen, and then voyaging on an icebreaker to a remote part of Greenland.

The book was also produced as a movie of the same name.

External Links

• Amazon: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1860461670/202-8980418-2511015)
• Amazon: Smilla's Sense of Snow (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385315147/103-8321239-1987817)
• Bohème Magazine (http://www.boheme-magazine.net/dec04/bookmark.html) Article about Smilla's Sense of Snow

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