Peter Hoeg

She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, …

Challenging ideas of education and childhood, a disturbing novel by the acclaimed author of Smilla's Sense of Snow is about a boy who grows up in institutions and becomes drawn to outsiders at an elite private school. 75,000 first printing.