Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel in Bloomington, MN

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Best Book of the Year · Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award · A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel
First published in 1992, Peter Høeg's
Smilla's Sense of Snow
instantly became an international sensation. When caustic Smilla Jaspersen discovers that her neighbor—a neglected six-year-old boy, and possibly her only friend—has died in a tragic accident, a peculiar intuition tells her it was murder. Unpredictable to the last page,
Smilla's Sense of
Snow
is one of the most beautifully written and original crime stories of our time, a new classic.