Daughter of a Greenlander mother and a wealthy Dane, Smilla is a most unusual character. In Denmark, alone, she befriends a lonely boy Isaiah. A huge stuttering man, the Mechanic, becomes her lover. Isaiah, afraid of heights, dies falling from an apartment building leaving only his footprints in the snow: Smilla‘s remarkable sense of snow tells her this was murder. This brick of a novel follows her attempt in painstaking detail with help from ⬇️
Texreader the Mechanic and a Danish company‘s accounting expert to prove it was murder. Her search takes her back to two mysterious trips to a remote island off #Greenland in the 1960s and 1990s, the death of Isaiah‘s father on one of those trips, and a new trek to the island. Smilla becomes a stewardess on the new ship crew and she takes every risk imaginable, with muñtiple attempts on her life, to discover what these people are seeking in Greenland. ⬇️ 5d
Texreader Smilla‘s remarkable sense of snow, and ice, helps resolve the mystery. The vague ending left readers upset, but I felt the conclusion was final. I struggled with all the tiny details, and the character herself, with few redeeming qualities. The narrator of the audiobook made her seem on the spectrum. I wasn‘t sure if that was the case, a character quirk, or a description of Greenlanders in general. She definitely was a no holds barred character! 5d
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