Smilla's Sense of Snow

By Peter Høeg

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Smilla's Sense of Snow is a 1992 novel by Danish writer Peter Høeg. It became an international bestseller and was adapted into a 1997 film starring Julia Ormond. In Copenhagen, Smilla Jaspersen, a scientist of Greenlandic and Danish descent with an expert knowledge of snow and ice, refuses to accept that a neighbor's boy fell from a roof by accident. Reading his footprints in the snow, she uncovers a conspiracy that leads her on a ship to Greenland.

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