.Smilla and Her Sense of Snow

"Smilla and Her Sense of Snow" is the most famous novel by Peter Høeg. Written by the author from the perspective of a half-Greenlander half-Dane, it brought the Danish writer truly global fame, was translated into about thirty languages, published in millions of copies, and adapted for film.

This book is about how a person in a big city feels, distinguishing dozens of types of snow and ice, and reading the tracks in the snow like an open book. It reflects the underside of modern European society - with all its prosperity, uncertainty, excitement, and loneliness - under the intense, unambiguous gaze of a person from a different culture.