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| | Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg |
 | | "The primal stuff of this novel, of course, is snow and ice, which Høeg conjures up in all its varieties—frazil ice, grease ice, pancake, porridge, field ice—with the relish of Richard Burton anatomizing melancholia" —Fernanda Eberstadt, The New Yorker Discuss the significance of the title Smilla's Sense of Snow. |
 | | Peter Høeg, born in Denmark in 1957, pursued various interests--he was a professional dancer, an actor, a sailor, a fencer, and a mountaineer--before turning seriously to writing. |
 | | Smilla's Sense of Snow is his third novel and the first to be published in English. |
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