作品情報
スミラの雪の感覚は、ペーター・ホゥの表現世界を示す受賞作品。
雪に覆われたコペンハーゲンとグリーンランドを結ぶサスペンス。少女の死を追うスミラの視線から、植民地性、科学、孤独を描く。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Random House Publishing Group
- 発売日
- 1995-10-01
- ページ数
- 480ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.34 x 2.77 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780385315142
- ISBN-10
- 0385315147
- 価格
- 2032 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Women Sleuths
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime, an Inuit expat must confront a buried secret back home to bring a murderer to justice in this “finger-biting Danish suspense novel” ( Chicago Tribune ) from the internationally renowned author of The Woman and the Ape . “Astonishing.”— Los Angeles Times “A superbly constructed thriller.”— People “A book of profound intelligence.”— The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, People, Entertainment Weekly It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy’s body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn’t fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. For her dead neighbor, and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice. . . .
Peter Høeg is an internationally renowned Danish author who entered the North American literary scene with Smilla's Sense of Snow . Since its publication, Høeg's new works, such as The Woman and the Ape - have appeared in English translations alongside older works such as Tales of the Night . Once a sailor, and currently an actor and dancer as well as a writer, Høeg lives in Copenhagen.
レビュー
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GREAT IN EVERY WAY
GREAT AND A HARD BACK.
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Come attese
Ottimo se pensi che lo ricevi direttamente a casa
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Alles PERFEKT!!!
Alles PERFEKT!!!
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Arctic Mayhem, with a Purpose
This novel can be read on two levels: as a sci-fi/mystery story, and as a discourse on the maginalization of the native (Inuit) people of Greenland by the Danish. The eponymous narrator, Smilla Jaspersen, is half-Inuit, half-Danish, and thus is the ultimate outsider. Indeed, while being interviewed by the police, she is asked "....is there any association or organization that you have not been kicked out of?..." to which she replies that as far as she knows, she is still listed in the census! She has had a hard life, but is stubborn and combative; she and Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone probably would see eye-to--eye on a lot of things! The story begins with a young boy, a neighbor and friend of Smilla's, falling off the roof of the apartment building where they lived. The questions are: fell/pushed ? and Why? Smilla, happens to be a world-class expert on snow, and knows about tracking as part of her Inuit heritage. One look at the tracks in the snow convinces her that this is a case of murder, and when the police don't move fast enough, she starts to investigate on her own. Mistake! The rest of the book is how she finds out "who dunnit" and why. The quest is crazily violent, like a script for one Road Runner against 25 Wiley Coyotes. From another point of view, it could be the basis of a great, hyper-violent video game! In the end, Smilla does find out the Who and Why of the crime, after a trip to Northern Greenland by icebreaker. We don't explicitly see how she will get back, but no doubt she will find a way. At this level, the book is a page-turner, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The other aspect of this book is its portrayal of the relations between the Inuit Greenlanders, both in Greenland and in Denmark, of which Greenland is a protectorate. The Danes are shown as treating them with contempt and exploiting them whenever it suits the Danish purposes. The writing reminds one of Conrad's Heart of Darkness or Victory. One wonders if Hoeg simply got tired of hearing his fellow Danes rebuke other Europeans, (French, British, Belgians, Americans) for their mistreatment of indigenous peoples, and decided to write a book to make them pipe down? He certainly has accomplished that! In summary, this is a great book, well worth reading and re-reading.
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Unusual detective story
Easy to read but a complex plot about snow and why it was crucial to the outcome and to the discovery of the solution.
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Absorbing read.
Intriguing and absorbing read. The language is good, the writing easy to get into. There were a couple of bits that were not what I had anticipated, but I won't ruin the story for you. You get drawn into it, and it's taken me a week to get it out of my brain. Like Salanger, but the ultimate snow expert. It will be more than you expect.
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