Il senso di Smilla per la neve
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788804408789 (8804408782)
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Pages no: 511
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Novels,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Scandinavian Literature,
Denmark,
Danish
This is a pretense: actually 150 pages were dividing me from the end, not 0 like the target "finished" would suggest. I hate doing it, I swear, I can bear nails on the blackboard, titanic non-sense, lethal lethargy or even coma just to finish a book completely. But recently the time has been tyrann...
One of my most favourite books of all time. Forget the crime-plot twist. The exploration of cultural displacement, belonging and connection make it an absolutely amazing study of life.
I read half of this book -- to the part where smilla goes aboard a ship -- but could not deal with reading it any longer.
Synopsis: When a small Inuit boy, Isaiah is found dead after having fallen off the roof of her apartment building, Smilla suspects his death was not an accident. The half Inuit Smilla had become very close to the boy and she becomes obsessed with finding the truth about his death. In a weird way ...
Das war hier wirklich ein Sprung in sehr kaltes Wasser. Der Stil des Autors wirkte auf mich kühl, fast schon klinisch und ich hatte das Gefühl, als wollte der Autor es dem Leser hier alles andere als einfach machen. Er gibt die Geschichte mehr wieder, als mit ihr bewusst unterhalten zu wollen und sp...
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