She is uncomforable living among the Danes.
The daughter of a wealthy Danish doctor and his first wife, an Inuit hunter, Smilla is a stranger to all. For her, the snow and ice are more important than the sun. The woman with the sense of snow is Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a glaciologist living in Copenhagen. I hadn't quite seen such an unusual heroine or been taken to such exotic lands before Hoeg's novel.
Smilla's Sense of Snow was one of those books that has stuck with me. The 1997 movie starred Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Loggia and Richard Harris. Published in 1992, Smilla's Sense of Snow was named best book of the year by Time, People and Entertainment Weekly magazines and won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award. It seems hard to believe that Hoeg's story about his complicated, unlikable heroine celebrates its 20th anniversary. That would be Danish writer Peter Hoeg and his Smilla's Sense of Snow. Larsson showed the real Sweden, making us feel as if we had actually walked those neighborhoods and visited the countryside.īut Larsson wasn't the first to make a splash with a contrary, asocial heroine or show us a part of a country even the well-traveled tourist may not have seen.
When the boy, Smilla’s only friend, is found crumpled in the snow, she becomes obsessed with solving the mystery.Stieg Larsson and his heavily tattooed Lisbeth opened the floodgates for unusual women characters and an insider's view of Europe. She’s also drawn to abstract mysteries, such as the limitless world of mathematics and the almost infinitesimal manifestations of snow and ice. She has been living in painful exile ever since.Īs a result, she’s reclusive, and often hostile to people. When her mother died tragically in Greenland, Smilla’s American father moved the girl (also 6 at the time) to Copenhagen. Smilla, too, is a Greenlandic immigrant in the Danish capital. The woman, a scientist called Smilla, feels connected to the boy on many levels. This adaptation of Peter Hoeg’s best-selling novel certainly lures us into intriguing circumstances: the unexplained death of a 6-year-old Inuit boy in Copenhagen, and an Inuit-American woman’s attempt to get to the bottom of it. "Not only dense, dark and deeply introspective, it's also as remote as it's chilly."
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