The novel “Smilla and Her Sense of Snow” brought the Danish writer Peter Høeg truly worldwide fame. It has been published successfully in many countries, and to date its total circulation has reached several million copies. A film was made in Hollywood based on the novel. The book’s phenomenal success is explained not only by its gripping detective plot, tightly wound intrigue, fine sense of style, and deep knowledge of surprising real-life details and the subtleties of modern living—but also because Peter Høeg managed, using this intriguing material, to write a genuinely serious novel about human passions and suffering, to satirize (in the fullest sense of the word) modern life with all its chaos, loneliness, depression, excitement, and defeats.