Smilla’s Sense of Snow (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Høeg
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Detectives, Death or dying, Denmark or Danish people, Sailing or sailors, Conspiracies or conspirators, Greenland or Greenlanders
- Locales: Copenhagen, Denmark, Greenland
Smilla Jaspersen cannot believe that the death of her seven-year-old friend Isaiah was the result of an accidental fall. She tries to convince police to look at the event more carefully, but they refuse and she is warned not to pursue an investigation of her own. When she persists, she finds that Isaiah and his mother had been supported by an unusually large pension paid by a large company, the Cryolite Corporation. Isaiah’s father, an Inuit, had died during one of two mysterious expeditions to Greenland carried out by the corporation; his death, she also finds, was somewhat...
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