![]() ![]() For Høeg, books are intuitive and less logical than daily life. Peter Høeg explains how the character of Smilla came to him in an unlikely way, as he saw a Somalian woman cross the street in Copenhagen and knew his next main character would be called Smilla. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smilla uncovers a trail of clues, and her sense of snow leads her into a mystery that goes back decades. She begins her own investigation, forming an uneasy friendship with another neighbour, a mechanic. The book opens when the young boy has fallen to his death from the roof of their apartment building it's ruled an accident, yet Smilla, an expert on ice and snow, can tell from his footprints that he was running from someone. Smilla is half-Dane and half-Inuit she is unmarried, childless, independent and irascible and yet she forms an unlikely friendship with her neighbour six year old Isaiah. First published in 1992 the novel's runaway success was due to its extraordinary central character, 37 year old Smilla Qaavigaaq Jasperson, as well as the unfamiliar backdrop of snowy Copenhagen and the icy wastes of Greenland. Peter Høeg's internationally bestselling Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow was the original Scandi-crime thriller. ![]()
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