Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

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<p><b>The original Scandinavian thriller</b></p><p>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.</p>

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Peter Høeg was born in 1957 and followed various callings - dancer, actor, fencer, sailor, mountaineer - before he turned seriously to writing. He published his first novel in 1988, a book which was acclaimed in Denmark by<i>Information</i>as evidence enough that Høeg was 'the foremost writer of his generation'. It is now published in English as<i>The History of Danish Dreams</i>. With the publication of his crime novel<i>Miss Smilla's feeling for Snow</i>he achieved an international reputation and found a settled place of the bestseller lists.

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