Mapped
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Peter Høeg
Smilla Jaspersen, a prickly half-Inuit Greenlander in Copenhagen with an expert's feeling for ice and snow, refuses to believe that the small Greenlandic boy from her building simply fell to his death, and her investigation uncovers a secret mining conspiracy that draws her onto a ship bound for a remote Greenland glacier. Høeg's thriller maps a real geography: the wintry Copenhagen of the harbour and the cryolite company, the voyage north across the Atlantic, and the ice of Greenland that is Smilla's true element.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Peter Høeg
A Copenhagen of black winter water and Greenlandic exile. A half-Inuit woman who reads snow the way others read print refuses to accept that a neighbour's child simply fell from a warehouse roof, and follows the cold trail from the flats of Christianshavn out through the harbour and the Freeport to a ship bound north. The map runs along the Inner Harbour waterfront and up the Østerbro shore.
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We, the Drowned
Carsten Jensen
A century of seafarers from the little Danish town of Marstal on the island of Ærø, from the 1848 war to 1945, whose men sail the world's oceans and drown in them by the boatload while their women wait at home. Jensen roots the epic in the real port town, its harbour and shipyards, and follows its sailors, Laurids Madsen who went to heaven and came back, his son Albert, the boy Knud Erik, out to the far ports of the South Seas and into the U-boat wars of the Atlantic, and back to the widows of Marstal.
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