Смилла и ее чувство снега

She reads snow like an open book. She believes in numbers, but doesn't believe in people. Especially - to officials, those who are trying to prove to her that the Greenlander boy was just playing on the roof and accidentally fell down. Because she knows how much he was afraid of heights. Because the footprints in the snow lead straight to the edge. And these are not footprints of a child playing... She is Smilla Kwaavigaak Jaspersen, a half-Danish, half-Eskimo, born in Greenland, living in Copenhagen. For her, this death begins the search for answers to questions posed by omissions, a voice on an old cassette, stripes on an x-ray. A search that takes her further and further: the city - the sea - the ice. After the publication of this book, Peter Hoeg became world famous. The glory is all the more deserved because even now, fifteen years after the first publication, this novel still has nothing to compare with - it is unique, like a snowflake or an ice crystal. Translator Elena Krasnova