Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

Author: Peter Høeg

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  • : $26.99 NZD
  • : 9781860461675
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
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  • : 0.29
  • : September 2012
  • : 197mm X 131mm X 26mm
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  • : Peter Høeg
  • : Harvill Panther Ser.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 839.81374
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Description

The original Scandinavian thriller One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop.The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow and ice, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.

Promotion info

'Both melancholy and beautiful. It is also unputdownable' Mail on Sunday

Awards

Winner of CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction 1994.

Author description

Born in 1957, Peter Hoeg published his first novel in 1988, having followed various callings - dancer, actor, fencer, sailor, mountaineer - before turning seriously to writing. With his second novel, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, he has become an internationally acclaimed. Harvill also publish The Woman and the Ape, Borderliners, The History of Danish Dreams and Tales of the Night.