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Product Details

  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Delta; Reprint edition (October 1, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385315147
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385315142
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (312 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA book to read over and over, to enjoy on many levels
By A Customer on April 2, 2000
Format: Paperback
I read a review of Smilla in the New York Times Book Review the year it was published and was completely intrigued by it. I found it on a clearance rack for around 2 dollars a few years later, and have been reading it ever since. It is one of the few books that I take wherever I travel. Smilla is not always a nice person; most of the time her past envelopes her present and makes her almost unlikeable. The other characters in the novel, the mechanic, her father, the coroner and the blind linguist are so well written that you begin to feel that you know them. I can't agree with the 2/3's assessment,because I find it gripping to the end, even though I have read it many times. The atmosphere of Copenhagen in winter, the language of snow and ice, and the mystery surrounding a young boy's death may not move ahead like an American mystery, but the slow unraveling of the plot is perfect for a novel set in a country where life is lived at a different pace than ours.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTAUT AND COMPELLING
By Larry L. Looney on January 12, 2004
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I probably wouldn't have read this book if it had not been gifted to me at Christmas by my best friend - she had seen the film, and knowing how much I like to read, felt that it would be `right up my alley'...and once again, she was right in her judgment concerning my tastes. One of the quotes on the back cover (from The New Yorker) puts this novel `...in the league of Melville or Conrad' - while I'm not sure I would go quite that far, Høeg is a fine writer, and his talents for keeping the reader in suspense as he spins this tale are pretty impressive.
The central character, Smilla, is of mixed Greenlandic and Danish parentage - and the conflicts between those two cultures, one colonial, one native, are alive within her constantly. The dialectic that exists between these two forces - which has so often transformed and rent the fabric of human society - tears at her life. She is a strong-willed, intelligent woman who is not really sure what she wants or expects from life - she trusts her instincts, but not necessarily her heart. When she comes upon the body of her six-year-old neighbor Isaiah crumpled in the snow outside their apartment building, dead from a fall from the roof, she is immediately suspicious - and when the police almost instantly rule the death an accident, Smilla's initial doubts increase. They continue to do so almost exponentially as she begins to look into the case - and her investigation leads her into one dangerous situation after another.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA thinking person's thriller
By Michael Albert Riccardi on October 25, 2001
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Peter Hoeg proves that serious literature can be both entertaining and artful. On the surface, "Smilla's Sense of Snow" is genre fiction. But dig a little deeper, and there is a character study of great sensitivity, a setting with symbolic value and profound themes about loss. Unlike other densely-plotted thrillers, this book rewards re-reading
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4.0 out of 5 starsOh, What Can You Do with a Girl Like That?
By Urbun Scrawler on August 25, 2010
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I read all the reviews before writing my own because I was curious about the general consensus. People complained about the unsatisfactory ending, what they perceived as the author's intellectual showboating, as well as the narcissistic, cold-hearted selfishness of the main character. I understand the criticism leveled at the ending; I was looking for more resolution in terms of the main character's relationship to her rootless life, but ultimately I accepted that as part of the book, for better or for worse. On the other two counts I couldn't disagree more. What might be taken for pretentiousness is perhaps the author's expertise in many wide-ranging interests. And as for the main character--well, that was what drew me to this book and made it one of my all-time favorites. What I found interesting in the negative reviews was the almost angry vehemence with which readers built their case.

I first read this literary thriller when it was published in 1993. Smilla Jaspersen--half Greenlander, half Dane, an unconventional loner and brilliant scientist who struggles with her conflicted upbringing--is devastated when a young boy she has befriended mysteriously falls to his death from the roof of their apartment building. Unsatisfied that it was an accident, she follows a trail from Copenhagen to the bleak Arctic reaches to solve his murder. Since that time I've probably read it a half a dozen times--and not for the incantatory power of the prose. Don't get me wrong--the writing is terrific and the story is compelling, complex, and extraordinarily well-plotted--but what gripped me most about this book was the main character. And she still grips me.

Smilla is undoubtedly the first contemporary fictional female character who isn't a wife, mother, saint, or a whore.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsFantastic first two-thirds, abominably bad ending
By David Ljunggren on January 23, 2000
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Authors are all too often struck by the dreaded 'Two-thirds syndrome' -- the problem of how to maintain the suspense of a good book until the very end. All too often, about two-thirds of the way into a novel, you can almost hear the question reverberating around an author's head: "How on earth am I going to end this?" One of the best examples of this must be Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, a mystery which also does a superlative job of charting the alienation of a Greenlander in Copenhagen. Just as you're gearing up for a fantastic conclusion, the author turns it into a cheap spy novel and ruins much of what he has achieved. I am still puzzled by how bad the ending of this book is when you consider what went before
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3.0 out of 5 starsI am glad i took the time to finish it

Convoluted with lots of characters, and lots of different types of snow and Ice. But it was a fascinating book and I was determined to finish it. Read more

Published 8 days ago by MARIE DUPREE
3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting characters.

A well written story. Enjoyed the characters and plot. The ending was somewhat disappointing though. One of the reasons I read fiction is to find the resolution to a story. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 starsMacDonald's books hold up over time.

Even though MacDonald has been dead for many years, his books still resonant with concerns about the environment, land speculators and many other problems needing to be addressed. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Roberta E. Ingrassia
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Loved Smilla. My dream girl. But the ending was incongruous

Published 1 month ago by Amazon Customer
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Greenland is a cold place where your mother may get eaten by a walrus.

Published 2 months ago by Richard Allen
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

One of my favorite books; I have read it more than once.

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It was very interesting

Published 3 months ago by Connie L. Funk
5.0 out of 5 starsIntriguing, fascinating.. ordered two more copies for ...

Intriguing, fascinating..ordered two more copies for children as gifts. motivation..to give them an intriguing thought provoking read.

Published 3 months ago by Virginia B. Norton
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Enjoyable read.

Published 4 months ago by 2Mejohn
4.0 out of 5 starsLoved this book.

An interesting and often exciting novel packed with fascinating geological tidbits. Smilla is a fiercely independent woman, intelligent, brave and strong.

Published 4 months ago by Noelani Gentry

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