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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg, Felicity David
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
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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.... show more
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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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781860461675 (1860461670)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 409
Edition language: English
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Annie is reading ~
Annie is reading ~ rated it
2.0 Junish reads: Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
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...
Dessi
Dessi rated it
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.
the reader of books
the reader of books rated it
0.0 Smilla's Sense of Snow
I read half of this book -- to the part where smilla goes aboard a ship -- but could not deal with reading it any longer.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dork
Don't Be Afraid of the Dork rated it
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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 ...
Seitenteich
Seitenteich rated it
3.0 Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee
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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