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Book 1994

Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published
1994
  • Women detectives
  • Fiction
  • French fiction
  • Translations from Danish
  • Danish fiction
  • Translations into French
  • Littérature danoise
  • Detective and mystery stories

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.