Danish Novels (Study Guide) - Novels by Hans Christian Andersen, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Niels Klim's Underground Travels (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by Hans Christian Andersen, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Niels Klim's Underground Travels, the Long Journey, Let Time Pass, the Fall of the King, the Two Baronesses, Stolen Spring. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow or Smilla's Sense of Snow (original Danish title: Froken Smillas fornemmelse for sne) is a 1992 novel by Danish author Peter Hoeg. It was translated into English by Tiina Nunnally under the second title for the U.S. market. Another translation, under the first title ostensibly done by "F. David" was published in the United Kingdom; it is, however, at heart the same translation as the U.S. version, with various modifications made by the author and his publisher with which the translator did not agree and as a result of which she requested that her name be removed from it. The novel is ostensibly a work of detection and a thriller, although beneath the surface of the novel, Hoeg is concerned with rather deeper cultural issues, particularly Denmark's curious post-colonial history, and also the nature of relationships that exist between individuals and the societies in which they are obliged to operate. The protagonist Smilla Qaaviqaaq Jaspersen is a sympathetic and useful vehicle in this respect, her deceased mother being Greenlandic Inuit and her father a rich Danish doctor. Smilla's relationship with Denmark and Danish society, having been brought in childhood from the poverty and freedom of Greenland to the affluent and highly ordered society of Denmark, is strained and ambivalent. Smilla investigates the death of a neighbors child whom she had befriendeda fellow Greenlander, with an alcoholic, neglectful mother and a mysteriously deceased father. The story begins i...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=127885