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'Smilla's sense of snow'
I think I prefer Miss Smilla's feeling for snow. The register feels more accurate.
Not so great as a murder mystery per se (you know who did it pretty early and the question becomes more.... why?
I'd guess that Hoeg expected his readers to guess quickly. That or he realised they would and moved towards the somewhat strange ending.
He's good at building suspense though and as you say, great fun and as Barney says, a great read. His Book of Danish Dreams is good too but not an especially jolly read due to the dark subject matter.
You're right about the way he approaches Greenlanders, both in a realistic and a romantic way. That contrast reflects the paradoxes of dual heritage.
The heritage thing reminds me of a really good book I read last week. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. It was on the Sunday Times and NYT best sellers lists and was Barack Obama's book pick.
Not off topic since some of it concerns Greenland and the Inuit too. A lot to do with dual heritage, asylum and migration and the paradoxes around that. I expected it to be painfully politically correct though it isn't. It doesn't make light of racism and unconscious bias however it also takes the pıss out of Identity Grievance and fixating on a part of your ancestry.
Exciting too, set mostly in London (and the Arctic) and has lots of killings and spook stuff. The ending of the book and sting in the tail really isn't so predictable and I recommend it.
