Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg
A half-Greenlandic woman investigates a child's death in Copenhagen.
you've ever been an outsider in the country that claims to own you
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Smilla Jaspersen is half-Inuit, half-Danish — trusted by neither world, fully belonging to neither. When a Greenlandic boy falls from a Copenhagen rooftop and the police call it an accident, Smilla knows the snow tells a different story. Høeg uses a crime novel structure to dispatch from inside the colonial relationship between Denmark and Greenland — the condescension, the erasure, the specific rage of someone who knows their knowledge is being dismissed. The most P&P Scandinavian thriller ever written.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Denmark • Scandinavia
- Voice
- Written by a Danish author
- Themes
- WitnessBorderlands
