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Peter Høeg

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Peter Høeg (born 17 May 1957) is a Danish writer of fiction. He is best known for his novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992).

Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark
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It's freezing-an extraordinary 0 Fahrenheit-and it's snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik-big, almost weightless crystals falling in clumps and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost.

— from Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne, 1996

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Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne

1996

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Miss Smilla Jasperson isn't prepared to accept the Copenhagen police's verdict of accidental death when a neighbour's six-year-old boy falls from the roof of a block of flats. She's a Greenlander, and her feeling for snow tells her that the footprints in the snow are a clue to what happened.

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Kvinden og aben

1996

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Ringing the Changes - novelette by Robert Aickman Author! Author! - novelette by Isaac Asimov Touring - novelette by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick [as by Jack M. Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick] The Wind in the Rose-Bush - short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Come Dance with Me on My Pony's Grave - short story by Charles L. Grant The Fire When It Comes - novelette by Parke Godwin The Toll-House - short story by W. W. Jacobs The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost - novelette by Russell Kirk A Terrible Vengeance - novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte Riddell] Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) - novelette by Tanith Lee A Passion for History - short story by Stephen Minot Daemon - novelette by C. L. Moore The Lady's Maid's Bell - novelette by Edith Wharton The King of Thieves - short story by Jack Vance

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