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.
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 ...
I had wanted to read this novel since it was first published in the early 1990s and with all the popularity of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo bringing Scandinavian writers into the spotlight this boo is again popping up on every one's 'must read' lists.The book is divided into 2 parts The City and ...
Worth the suspension of belief required. The story itself is rather flaky, but the character is intriguing (though not necessarily likable), and the sense of atmosphere is well-developed. Big plus is that it mentions "the Alvarez hypothesis."
I was shocked by how much this book bored me. I love Nordic Noir, but this one just seemed to drag on. It didn't have the twistedness that I have come to know and adore about Nordic Noir..
Smilla's Sense of Snow is a vast and challenging book. It's challenging because the main character, Smilla, resists every attempt that the reader makes to like her. She is totally unapolgetic. And that is wonderful. The book also makes use of setting. Hoeg transmits the feeling of Cophenhague. ...
In English it is Smilla's Sense of Snow. But the english version did not come up when I searched in Godreads. Strange. This is a fast-paced murder mystery set in Denmark and Greenland. You will enjoy the mystery and learn a lot about the locations and Danish culture. The movie was pretty faithful, b...
I've to admit I've got a kind of prejudice towards the Danes. Lars Von Trier: it's the same for you, I beg your pardon. Dogma annoys me. I do prefer Norwegians, I'm sorry.Perhaps it's just because I dislike Danish pronounciation which seems too rude to my ears.Or maybe it's just because for a while ...
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