A Time Best Book of the Year - An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year - A People Best Book of the Year - Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award - A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel - Seductive.
a superbly constructed thriller.
--- People - Splendid entertainment.
The suspense novel as exploration of the heart.
--- The New York Times Book Review - Astonishing.
Like John le Carr and Graham Greene before him, Peter H eg has given a thriller moral and political resonance.
--- Los Angeles Times - A considerable achievement, a riveting suspense tale.
---Jane Smiley, The Washington Post Book World - A book of considerable intelligence.
Demands to be read aloud and savored.
--- The New Yorker - Wonderful.
A thriller like no other.
--- Newsweek - Enchanting.
--- Chicago Tribune - Beautifully written and beautifully translated.
--- The Seattle Times - The best thriller] I've read in years.
--- The New Republic - Peter H eg has shown himself to be a writer of real stature.
--- The Times (London) - One never wants to stop reading.
--- Orlando Sentinel First published in 1992, 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.