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Book Review of Smilla's Sense of Snow (aka Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow)

Smilla's Sense of Snow (aka Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow)
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A superb thriller with a combination of suspense narrative, Hemingwayesque prose, exotic setting and spellbinding central female.

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, ecotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jasperson is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime....