Miss Smillas Feeling For Snow
A little boy falls off a roof in Copenhagen and is killed. Smilla, his neighbour, suspects it is not an accident: she has seen his footsteps in the snow, and, having been brought up by her mother, a Greenlander, she has a feeling for snow.
A little boy falls off a roof in Copenhagen and is killed. Smilla, his neighbour, suspects it is not an accident: she has seen his footsteps in the snow, and, having been brought up by her mother, a Greenlander, she has a feeling for snow.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780006547839 (0006547834)
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Flamingo
Pages no: 410
Edition language: English
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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