暢銷20年,北歐犯罪小說的經典
售出35國版權,全球銷量超過五百萬冊
滿足推理懸疑的美感,讓犯罪小說榮登藝術殿堂的傑作
她聽見冰的聲音,雪的心跳
她踩著冰雪的死亡陷阱,縱身往前一躍……
事發在哥本哈根的雪地上,與史蜜拉同樣來自格陵蘭的小男孩以賽亞從樓頂墜樓死亡。男孩屍骨未寒,警方即刻宣布該起事件為意外,但史蜜拉知道以賽亞絕非從樓頂失足摔死。她開始追蹤一系列如雪地足跡清晰可見的線索。這場痛苦旅程不僅要揭發事實真相,還充滿了暴力與謊言,史蜜拉確信自己揭露的罪行足以粉碎一切。她必須回到出身的冰雪世界,而那衝擊的秘密就藏在冰層下。
這部叱吒國際文壇的犯罪小說令人無法抗拒,女主角尤其了不起--這位行事粗野、特立獨行,卻又擁有溫柔脆弱特質的史蜜拉。她是犯罪小說女主角最傑出的典範,你會深深為她著迷。
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...
It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. For her dead neighbor, and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice....
★本書中譯版《雪中第六感》由商周出版。
★本書原文書名: Froken Smillas fornemmelse for sne
作者簡介
彼得.霍格(Peter Hoeg)
1957年出生於哥本哈根,大學修讀文學,在投入寫作之前曾經是舞蹈家、演員、劍術家、水手、登山家。1988年出版第一部小說一鳴驚人,被譽為「他那一代最重要的丹麥作家」。隨後出版的犯罪小說《雪中第六感》長踞世界各國暢銷書榜,為他在世界文壇取得一席之地。另著有《情困伊甸園》、《危險的靜默》等書。
Peter Hoeg is an internationally renowned Danish author who entered the North American literary scene with Smilla's Sense of Snow. Since its publication, Hoeg's new works, such as The Woman and the Ape - have appeared in English translations alongside older works such as Tales of the Night. Once a sailor, and currently an actor and dancer as well as a writer, Hoeg lives in Copenhagen.