Smilla and Her Sense of Snow

"Smilla and Her Sense of Snow" is the most famous novel by Peter Heg. Written from the perspective of a half-Greenlander, half-Dane, it brought the Danish author truly global fame, was translated into three dozen languages, published in millions of copies, and adapted into a film.

This is a book about how a person who distinguishes dozens of types of snow and ice feels in a big city and reads tracks in the snow like an open book. It portrays the underside of modern European society - with all its prosperity, uncertainty, excitement, and loneliness - under the intense, unambiguous gaze of a person from a different culture.