In 1997, the novel was adapted as a motion picture entitled Smilla’s Sense of Snow, directed by Bille August and starring Julia Ormond as Smilla. Alternatively titled Smilla’s Sense of Snow in America, the novel was shortlisted for an Edgar Award in 1994, and was named Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger Award in 1994. As she investigates, Smilla uses her expertise from years of studying glaciology to discover what really happened to the acrophobic Isaiah, a neighbor whom she’s cared for in the past. However, Smilla suspects murder as the cause of death and sets out on a perilous mission to find the truth. When a six-year-old Inuit boy named Isaiah plummets to his death from a rooftop one snowy evening, the authorities declare it an accident. Set in Copenhagen, the story follows Smilla Jaspersen, a lonely half-Inuit scientist from Greenland who feels out of place in Denmark. Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow is the 1992 mystery crime-fiction novel written by Danish author Peter Høeg.
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