Smilla’s Sense of Snow, by Peter Høeg
(translated by Tina Nunnally)
Smilla knows Isaiah, she knows snow, and she knows when she sees his small body lying in it that this child’s death was no accident. Using her Danish father’s detested wealth, her Inuit mother’s hunting wisdom, and her own internalized moral and geographic compasses, Smilla turns her scientific curiosity toward flushing out the murderer in mystery thriller SMILLA’S SENSE OF SNOW. To some, Smilla Jaspersen may be only a five-foot-two, mid-thirties, socially maladjusted old maid living on the edge in Copenhagen, but she is also a proud Greenlander who can still take to the ice in pursuit of justice.
[99 words]
NOTE: The above is a sample pitch I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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