Smilla's Sense of Snow
Publisher: Island Books
Published: August 1, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9780440218531
First sentence: It's freezing-an extraordinary 0 Fahrenheit-and it's snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik-big, almost weightless crystals falling in clumps and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost.