Author: Hoeg, Peter, 1957-
Author: David, F.,
Publication year: 1996
Language: English, Danish
Media class: Book
Publisher: Vintage Books,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781860461675 (pbk.) :
Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Harvill, 1993.
Original title: Froken Smillas fornemmelse for sne. English
Extent: 409 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Description: Smilla Jaspersen, the resourceful, tenacious and bloody-minded Greenlander heroine, has won the hearts of readers the world over in her quest to find the truth behind the death of a six year-old boy. 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.