Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
A young youngster is killed when he falls from a roof. His next-door neighbour, Smilla, believes it is not a coincidence because she has seen his footprints in the snow and because her mother is a Greenlander, she has a natural affinity for it.
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
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The smart, stubborn, and bloodthirsty Greenlander heroine Smilla Jaspersen has captured the hearts of readers all over the world with her mission to uncover the truth surrounding the death of a six-year-old boy.
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow begins better than it ends because Hoeg has a lyrical rather than a narrative eye, and as the story goes on, it gets increasingly unbelievable (and downright incomprehensible). However, Hoeg does a good job of capturing the personalities of the main characters in the early pages of the book. As Smilla, a Greenlandic-Danish ice expert, investigates the mysterious, ostensibly accidental death of a Greenlandic boy she befriended who lives in her building, you find yourself empathizing with her.
The story of a young child who dies and the woman who investigates his death takes place in a thriller during the winter in Copenhagen. For a long, I took this book around with me for inspiration and read it again every other year. I also gave it to everyone I knew. It’s brutal, icy, incredibly gorgeous, and odd. I learned to adore writing about powerful women and the extremes of nature as a result.
