Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Iceland and Finland

From: Nathan Cain ( IndieCrime@gmail.com)
Date: 24 Apr 2007


If I remember it correctly, Smilla's Sense of Snow, was a detective story
(involving the murder of a little boy) that took a sort of sci-fi twist in the last third. Don't know if I would call it noir, but I remember it wasn't a bad book, although it's been a long time since I read it.

On 4/24/07, e_lynskey < e_lynskey@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Nummelin" <juri.nummelin@...> wrote:
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> > Miker:
> >
> > "Smila's (sp?) Sense of Snow is in Finland or somewhere like that."
> >
> > Iceland, actually (and "Smilla"). Is the book noir? I haven't read
> > it, but it was promoted in Europe as high literature.
>
> It's been some time since I read SENSE OF SNOW. Oddly enough, I
> don't recall much of the plot although I do remember as liking it.
>
> Ed
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