Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Large Print Edition) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

A beautifully packaged reissue of this classic Scandinavian crime novel, to celebrate 21 years since its first UK publication --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Smilla Jaspersen, the resourceful, tenacious and bloody-minded Greenlander heroine, has won the hearts o f readers the world over in her quest to find the truth behi nd the death of a six year-old boy '

Peter Høeg was born in 1957 and followed various callings - dancer, actor, fencer, sailor, mountaineer - before he turned seriously to writing. He published his first novel in 1988, a book which was acclaimed in Denmark by Information as evidence enough that Høeg was 'the foremost writer of his generation'. It is now published in English as The History of Danish Dreams. With the publication of his crime novel Miss Smilla's feeling for Snow he achieved an international reputation and found a settled place of the bestseller lists. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.