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In this international bestseller, Peter Høeg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller. Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Her childhood in Greenland gives her an appreciation for the complex structures of snow, and when she notices that the boy's footprints show he ran to his death, she decides to find out who was chasing him. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she uncovers a series of conspiracies and cover-ups and quickly realizes that she can trust nobody. Her investigation takes her from the streets of Copenhagen to an icebound island off the coast of Greenland. What she finds there has implications far beyond the death of a single child. The unusual setting, gripping plot, and compelling central character add up to one of the most fascinating and literate thrillers of recent years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The title of this quiet, absorbing suspense novel by a Danish author only suggests the intriguing story it tells. After young Isaiah Christiansen falls from a snow-covered roof in present-day Copenhagen, something about his lone rooftop tracks--and the fact that the boy had a fear of heights--obsesses Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman who had befriended him. Smilla is 37, unmarried, and, like Isaiah, part of Denmark's small Eskimo/Greenlander community. She is also a minor Danish authority on the properties and classification of ice. Her search for what had frightened the boy leads her to uncover information about his father's mysterious death on a secret expedition to Greenland, a mission funded by a powerful Danish corporation involved in a strange conspiracy stretching back to WW II. As related in Smilla's sober, no-nonsense narration, the plot acquires credibility even as its details become more bizarre. While the novel will probably be compared to Gorky Park , Hoeg has much more to offer, both in terms of his impeccable literary style and in the glimpses he provides of an utterly foreign culture. Its chief virtue, however, is the narrator: Smilla is never less than believable in her contradictions--caustic, caring, thoughtful, impulsive, determined and above all, rebellious. Smoothly translated by Nunnally, this is Hoeg's third novel, but the first to appear in English. A dark, taut, compelling story, it's a real find. 40,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; BOMC selection.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In this international bestseller, Peter Høeg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller. Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Her childhood in Greenland gives her an appreciation for the complex structures of snow, and when she notices that the boy's footprints show he ran to his death, she decides to find out who was chasing him. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she uncovers a series of conspiracies and cover-ups and quickly realizes that she can trust nobody. Her investigation takes her from the streets of Copenhagen to an icebound island off the coast of Greenland. What she finds there has implications far beyond the death of a single child. The unusual setting, gripping plot, and compelling central character add up to one of the most fascinating and literate thrillers of recent years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
The title of this quiet, absorbing suspense novel by a Danish author only suggests the intriguing story it tells. After young Isaiah Christiansen falls from a snow-covered roof in present-day Copenhagen, something about his lone rooftop tracks--and the fact that the boy had a fear of heights--obsesses Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman who had befriended him. Smilla is 37, unmarried, and, like Isaiah, part of Denmark's small Eskimo/Greenlander community. She is also a minor Danish authority on the properties and classification of ice. Her search for what had frightened the boy leads her to uncover information about his father's mysterious death on a secret expedition to Greenland, a mission funded by a powerful Danish corporation involved in a strange conspiracy stretching back to WW II. As related in Smilla's sober, no-nonsense narration, the plot acquires credibility even as its details become more bizarre. While the novel will probably be compared to Gorky Park , Hoeg has much more to offer, both in terms of his impeccable literary style and in the glimpses he provides of an utterly foreign culture. Its chief virtue, however, is the narrator: Smilla is never less than believable in her contradictions--caustic, caring, thoughtful, impulsive, determined and above all, rebellious. Smoothly translated by Nunnally, this is Hoeg's third novel, but the first to appear in English. A dark, taut, compelling story, it's a real find. 40,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; BOMC selection.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cryolite Corporation, North Greenland, Gela Alta, Benedicte Clahn, White Palace, Andreas Licht, Greenland Star, Smilla Jaspersen, Johannes Loyen, Strand Boulevard, Barren Glacier, Davis Strait, Katja Claussen, Miss Smilla, South Harbor, Strand Drive, Tork Hviid, Arctic Ocean, Cape Farewell, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Professor Loyen, Smilla's Sense, West Greenland, Absolute Space, Andreas Fine Licht New!
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cryolite Corporation, North Greenland, Gela Alta, Benedicte Clahn, White Palace, Andreas Licht, Greenland Star, Smilla Jaspersen, Johannes Loyen, Strand Boulevard, Barren Glacier, Davis Strait, Katja Claussen, Miss Smilla, South Harbor, Strand Drive, Tork Hviid, Arctic Ocean, Cape Farewell, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Professor Loyen, Smilla's Sense, West Greenland, Absolute Space, Andreas Fine Licht New!
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- Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine by G. V. Gill on page 383
- Dynamics of Snow and Ice Masses by Samuel C. Colbeck on page 383
- Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper on page 448
- 1989 Medical Microbiology (Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology) by Ernest Jawetz on page 383
- Medical Microbiology by E. Jawetz on page 383
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- Lonely Planet Scandinavian Europe (Lonely Planet) by Graeme Cornwallis on page 58, and page 229
- Lonely Planet the Arctic (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) by Deanna Swaney on page 243, and page 244
- Tales of the Night by Peter Hoeg in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation by Ngaire E. Genge on page 64
- On Writing by Stephen King in Back Matter
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