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Smilla's Sense of Snow

Peter Høeg

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1992
Originally in
Originally in Danish
Pages
Pages 470

On the snow-covered roof of a Copenhagen apartment block, a six-year-old Greenlandic boy has left a single line of running footprints straight to the edge, and then nothing. The police call it an accident.

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church.
Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Høeg

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