- Taschenbuch: 480 Seiten
- Verlag: Delta; Auflage: Reprint (1. Oktober 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0385315147
- ISBN-13: 978-0385315142
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,4 x 2,5 x 20,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.9 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (76 Kundenrezensionen)
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Nr. 171.923 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
- Nr. 30 in Englische Bücher > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
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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.
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Danish novelist Heg's first English-language publication is an attempt to freeze out Gorky Park by moving from an intimate mystery to an ever-widening circle of corruption and danger--and to even colder climes. Surly Inuit/Greenlander Smilla Jaspersen is a world-class expert on ice and snow who, since emigrating to Denmark, has gone on nine scientific expeditions to her homeland and published half a dozen highly regarded papers in scholarly journals--but she still can't hold a steady job. When Isaiah Christensen, her six-year-old downstairs neighbor with a long-standing fear of heights, plunges from the roof of the White Palace, their apartment building, Smilla presses for a police inquiry; but instead of a homicide detective, the police send an investigator from the fraud division. Why? Also, why did somebody perform a muscle biopsy on Isaiah after he died? What was he doing on that roof in the first place? And what does his death have to do with his father's death on an expedition to Greenland two years before--a death that, Smilla learns from extravagantly pious accountant Elsa Lbing, was recompensed by a full, unearned pension by the Cryolite Corporation? With the help of another neighbor, dyslexic mechanic Peter Fjl, Smilla follows a trail from the White Palace through the Cryolite records of a fateful (and fatal) 1966 expedition, and ends up aboard the Kronos, a smuggling ship stuffed with drugs and desperate characters and bound for Greenland's Barren Glacier and a truly unimaginable cargo. Smilla, a wonderfully tough-talking amateur sleuth, gets out past her depth aboard the Kronos when her shipmates keep trying to toss her overboard. But her combination of brisk misanthropy and shrewd commentary on the colonial exploitation of Greenland--yes, this is a postcolonial novel about the Arctic--could score big. (First printing of 40,000) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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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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Peter Hoeg is an amazing storyteller of the modern day. He wwraps you into it with intriguing characters (even the villans are interesting) and heavyweight concepts. Smilla's is his most well-known work, and probably his strongest for general audiences. I read this coming off of Borderliners though, and thee up-in-the-air ending among a few other things made it seem diminished comparably. But still one of the best out there these days. I recommend this as an introduction to Hoeg. (Above all, do not begin with History of Danish Dreams!)
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"Smilla's Sense of Snow" is one of my favorite novels of all time. Quite ironic, considering that I almost didn't read it because the Julia Ormond-movie almost turned me away from it completely.
The narrator, Smilla, is, to be blunt, obnoxious, arrogant, mean-spirited, and emotionally damaged. But she also makes for an intriguing guide through the novel. She's very interesting, the way Holden Caulfield is interesting.
The plot of the novel begins with Smilla's attempts to unravel the mysterious death of a young boy who lived in the same apartment building. The boy supposedly fell off the roof to his death, but by examining the snow tracks -- Smilla's sense of snow -- she determines that he didn't fall.
Long before Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" came around, "Smilla's Sense of Snow" presented a scientifically-nerdy view of the thriller, packed with all kinds of trivia and even a math equation relating to the density of snow.
I recommended this book to three of my co-workers, all of whom raved about it as much as I did. Unfortunately, I didn't find "Borderliners" to be anywhere near the same level. Hoeg may be a one-hit wonder, but that hit is a bull's eye.
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Smilla's Glacial Plot
The book "Smilla's Sense Of Snow"'s plotline moves as slowly as a glacier. The first two hundred pages of this book is almost nothing more than conversations between... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Juli 2000 von chrisnu
What's the danish for ( )?
"Unputdownable!", "great!","yahoo!" or whatever they put on the cover, plus theoptimistic feeling that a book recommended by someone I really like... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Mai 2000 von S. Maruta
Win a Date With Smilla
If you always wanted to read the encyclopedia all the way through but never thought you had the time, Smilla is the woman for you. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Mai 2000 von Essen Lessecc
The stillborn hybrid.
I see Mr.Hoeg rather vividly as a brooding northerner who could benefit from a lot more sunshine and a smile or two. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Mai 2000 von Alexander Suraev
If the book is anything like the movie it's worth it
I haven't read the book yet but I did manage to watch the movie that was made for Bravo! It was VERY good and was very well portrayed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
one of the worst books ever
I was in pain to finish it. The idea is good but the writing is so heavy, long-winded, boring that it was a suffering to know it was still there, waiting for me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. März 2000 von claudia del negro
It's such a pleasure you'd forgive the last third...
I loved being inside Smilla's head. Forget the ultimately spacey plot and the weak ending - this is good reading.
Veröffentlicht am 22. März 2000 von Gerald Halpin
Feel the cold
This was one of the most interesting books I've ever read. What I found most engaging about this book is Hoeg's ability to make the reader FEEL what Smilla was feeling - the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Too slushy
Too long, too pretentious, too turgid, too boring, too self-important. I don't get all the glowing reviews; it's boring.
Am 2. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Complex but Brilliant
An amazing debut of a thriller/mystery. Smilla's Sense of Snow is complex, hard hitting and totally addictive, I couldn't put it down until I had read it from cover to cover. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. Januar 2000 von Kali
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