Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9781860461675
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $26.99

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

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The original Scandinavian thriller

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.
  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9781860461675
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Peter Høeg

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, The History of Danish Dreams, in 1988, and was called 'the foremost writer of his generation' by Information magazine. His crime novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow received universal acclaim and was an international bestseller.

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Also by Peter Høeg

The Susan Effect
The Elephant Keepers' Children
The Quiet Girl
The History Of Danish Dreams
Borderliners
Tales Of The Night
The Woman And The Ape
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Praise for Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

A subtle novel, yet direct, clever, wistful, unforgettable - Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph

On one level, both a whodunnit and a thriller - ingeniously plotted. Extremely hard to put down. Peter Høeg's novel is already making for classic status - Independent

Unusual and enveloping. Extraordinarily evocative, atmospheric and poetic - Sunday Times

An Arctic tale worthy of Conrad - New Statesman

A cracker...hard to put down...a real find - Edmund White

Read Høeg's delicious, icy-cool, Scandinavian detective story while sunbathing on a Caribbean beach. We guarantee it will make you shiver.

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