Smilla's sense of snow. (Record no. 71969)
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| fixed length control field | 01825cam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0440218535 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 839.81374 P4414 S |
| Item number | 10497 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Peter Hoeg |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Smilla's sense of snow. |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | translated by Tiina Nunnally. |
| Medium | English |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher | Dell Book |
| Date of publication | 1994 |
| Place of publication | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 499 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | <br/>"Smilla's Sense of Snow presents one of the toughest heroines in modern fiction. Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen is part Inuit, but she lives in Copenhagen. She is thirty-seven, single, childless, moody, and she refuses to fit in. Smilla's six-year-old Inuit neighbor, Isaiah, manages only with a stubbornness that matches her own to befriend her." "When Isaiah falls off a roof and is killed, Smilla doesn't believe it's an accident. She has seen his tracks in the snow, and she knows about snow. She decides to investigate and discovers that even the police don't want her to get involved. But opposition appeals to Smilla." "As all of Copenhagen settles down for a quiet Christmas, Smilla's investigation takes her from a fervently religious accountant to a tough-talking pathologist and an alcoholic shipping magnate and into the secret files of the Danish company responsible for extracting most of Greenland's mineral wealth - and finally onto a ship with an international cast of villains bound for a mysterious mission on an uninhabitable island off Greenland." "To read Smilla's Sense of Snow is to be taken on a magical, nerve-shattering journey - from the snow-covered streets of Copenhagen to the awesome beauty of the Arctic ice caps. A mystery, a love story, and an elegy for a vanishing way of life, Smilla's Sense of Snow is a breathtaking achievement, an exceptional feat of storytelling. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Fiction |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Women detectives -- Denmark -- Copenhagen -- Fiction. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Purchase price | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Fiction | Chinmaya International Foundation | Chinmaya International Foundation | Fiction | 18/03/2018 | Donation | 6.50 | 839.81374 P4414 S 10497 | 10497 | 18/03/2018 | Books |