Deemed the Best Book of 1993 by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People, and nominated for a 1994 Abby Award, this #1 bestseller is a superbly constructed thriller (People).
For her dead neighbor, and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and Snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice.....
Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.
But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn\'t fall from the roof on his own.
While the boy\'s body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident.
A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building.
It happened in the Copenhagen snow.
And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...
She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land.
She thinks more highly of Snow and ice than she does of love. in the league of Melville or Conrad.--The New Yorker. . .
A book of profound intelligence .
Deemed the Best Book of 1993 by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People, and nominated for a 1994 Abby Award, this #1 bestseller is a superbly constructed thriller (People)
