Description
- The novel begins in Copenhagen, where Smilla is devastated by the death of six-year-old Isaiah, her neighbor and fellow Greenlander.
- Police quickly rule the boy’s fall from a rooftop as an accident. But based on her deep knowledge of snow, Smilla examines the footprints and becomes certain that the boy was chased to his death.
- Driven by her “feeling for snow” and her alienation from Danish society, Smilla begins a dangerous personal investigation.
- Her quest for the truth takes her from the dark conspiracies of Copenhagen to an expedition on an icebreaker ship bound for a remote island off the coast of Greenland, where she finally uncovers a buried secret.
- Unlike the 1997 film adaptation, the book ends ambiguously, leaving the final resolution to the reader.
