Literary places in Copenhagen

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• 1992

  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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• 1992

  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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