Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne

Miss Smilla Jasperson isn't prepared to accept the Copenhagen police's verdict of accidental death when a neighbour's six-year-old boy falls from the roof of a block of flats. She's a Greenlander, and her feeling for snow tells her that the footprints in the snow are a clue to what happened.

First sentence: It's freezing-an extraordinary 0 Fahrenheit-and it's snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik-big, almost weightless crystals falling in clumps and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Harvill Pr

Editions

41

Reader rating

4.2 / 5 (16)

Pages

416

ISBN

9781860461675

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