Smilla’s Sense of Snow

Description

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. . . .
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Peter Hoeg
Published: 10/01/1995
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 9780385315142
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 1.10″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.20″ W

Award: 1994 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Honor Book – Adult
Award: 1995 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee – Adult
Award: 1994 Dilys Award Winner – Mystery Novel

About the Author
Peter Høeg is an internationally renowned Danish author who entered the North American literary scene with Smilla’s Sense of Snow. Since its publication, Høeg’s new works, such as The Woman and the Ape – have appeared in English translations alongside older works such as Tales of the Night. Once a sailor, and currently an actor and dancer as well as a writer, Høeg lives in Copenhagen.