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AUTHOR: PETER HOEG, TRANSLATED BY TIINA NUNNALLY...
...begins a remarkable, brooding detective thriller by Peter Hoeg, a Danish writer whose work is new to the U.S. The story's grim background is Denmark's exploitation of Greenland, the bleak northern island given its bosky name by Erik the Red, an early real estate promoter who hoped to attract settlers. Most recently, Danes have mined and exhausted Greenland's vast reserves of cryolite, a mineral used in the refining of aluminum, while giving only perfunctory and highly patronizing attention to the culture of the native Inuit...
That's the antiestablishment view of Hoeg's heroine, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her mother, a hunter and tracker, and the comfortable wealth of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Smilla knows both science and snow, but she is too rebellious to work regularly for the ruling Danes. She is at loose ends in Copenhagen when a six-year-old Eskimo boy she has befriended slips from the snowy roof of their apartment house and is killed. An accident, of course; but the boy, Smilla knows, wouldn't normally have been...
Kirsopp Lake to prepare for several publications including "Lectionaria Graeca" being edited in conjunction with Professor Hoeg of the Danish Academy; Alan M. G. Little to continue study of the theatrical influences in Hellenistic art; Ralph B. Perry for a study of puritanism and democracy...