At the heart of the story is glacier expert and half-Inuit Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, who many people (including myself) feel is one of the strongest, most intriguing female characters to appear in fiction in a very long time. The novel is filled with action, suspense, and a mystery that will leave you guessing to the end. I would have liked to write a formal and lengthy review myself, but that would require I read the book again, and I don't want to do that so close to the release of the new film. There are many things I have forgotten, and so the movie may still surprise me. In any case, if you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it. I'm sure the movie version, with its astounding cast, will do justice to the original script.
Brief Synopsis: It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronouce it an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbour didn't fall from the rooftop on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. For her dead neighbour and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation, and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice...
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