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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (also known as Smilla's Sense of Snow in the US and as Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne in the original Danish) is a widely-acclaimed 1992 novel by Peter Høeg.Smilla Qaaviqaaq Jaspersen is an highly introverted and bloody-minded half Greenlandic/half Danish woman living in Copenhagen. One of her few (possibly her only) friend is her neighbour's son Isaiah who is also Greenlandic. When he falls to his death from their apartment building she is suspicious. Isaiah suffered from vertigo and when she sees his tracks on the roof, her intuitive understanding of snow shows her that he was running for his life. Despite hostility from the authorities she begins to investigate, leading her back to Greenland and a far-reaching conspiracy.Written in the first person, the novel deals with themes of alienation, post-colonialism and how people survive mentally in societies they find inimical.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Smilla's Sense of Snow, a film adaptation directed by Bille August and featuring Julia Ormond in the title role, was released in 1997. | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Smilla Jaspersen has a history of winning against people much bigger and stronger than her. She stabs a man in the neck with a screwdriver when her tries to kidnap her, and topples a shelf onto a person she thinks is following her in the filing room of an office building. She also forces her stepmother to listen to her demands by pinching her in the crotch and bending her pinky finger all the way back. Apparently she's been this way all her life. She beat up a racist school bully much larger than her by finding out where he lived and ambushing him early in the morning, sending him to the hospital. When her father, a noted surgeon, tried to grab her and drag her home after she ran away at the age of twelve, she cut him with a scalpel she stole from the hospital she escaped from. When she is trapped on a ship with the vaguely psychopathic character Jakkelsen, she makes a weapon from a towel and a ball bearing, and injures him badly enough that he needs medical attention. However, she is always described as a petite and delicate woman. She is the narrator, by the way. | |
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The Alcoholic: Juliane and Birgo. | |
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Chekhov's Skill: It's mentioned in passing, as part of an explanation about something else, that Peter Føjl did military service that included experience scuba diving in arctic conditions. This turns out to be very important after the action shifts to Greenland. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: A couple of people who are mentioned in passing during Smilla's description of Isaiah's funeral turn out to be involved in the conspiracy that resulted in his death. | |
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