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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The prose was sometimes difficult to follow, not sure if this was due to the translation. Some very unlikely scenarios. (  )Tifi | Jun 17, 2009 |   This thriller begins when Smilla’s six-year-old neighbor falls from a snow-covered roof, and it is declared an accidental death. She decides to investigate the death on her own, using her Inuit knowledge of snow, and she encounters a dangerous and suspenseful mystery, as will you. brentwoodschool | May 14, 2009 | After reading this book I actually lived in Denmark for a while and saw the dark side of this well regarded modern nation. The Greenlanders' natural wisdom and simple attitude to life have no place in the work-ethic materialistic white Denmark, but instead form a perceptable dark-skinned minority living on benefits and alcohol, who act out the shadow side that the natural Danes seek to deny in polite manners and social democracy. A northern version of Australia and the persecuted originals of that vast continent. Peter Hoeg, in this and in other novels, exposes 'Authority' and the fear and hostility that those who hold it have for people who won't play their game. (  )Weirdbeard | Apr 28, 2009 | I spent a lot of time on this one, but it was worth it (Ok, I've been reading it since Christmas...). It's an epic, really, with amazing character development that also has a sense of suspense to it while also managing to be literary AND taught me things about Greenlander/Danish relations. I'm not giving it 5 stars because it was a book that I could walk away from, but it also was always one that I came back to. (  )miriamparker | Mar 19, 2009 | An inventive thriller with an unlikely but refreshingly believable heroine. (  )zenosbooks | Feb 25, 2009 | 0.049 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0385315147, Paperback)In this international bestseller, Peter Høeg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller. Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Her childhood in Greenland gives her an appreciation for the complex structures of snow, and when she notices that the boy's footprints show he ran to his death, she decides to find out who was chasing him. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she uncovers a series of conspiracies and cover-ups and quickly realizes that she can trust nobody. Her investigation takes her from the streets of Copenhagen to an icebound island off the coast of Greenland. What she finds there has implications far beyond the death of a single child. The unusual setting, gripping plot, and compelling central character add up to one of the most fascinating and literate thrillers of recent years.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:04 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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