Read this may years ago, when it first came out.
Overlong and should have been edited down, and the plot also over complicated. But nonetheless a big book, starts in Copenhagen with an apparent murder of a child, the second half is a voyage from Copenhagen to the west coast of Greenland in search of I am not sure that I fully understood what, with Smilla as a stowaway member of the kitchen staff.
She is an interesting character, a Greenlander, with a huge technical and intuitive interest in snow and the processes by which water solidifies.
A lot of interesting stuff about the cultural and social interaction between Denmark and Greenland- I had no idea that the latter was essentially colonised by the former. Elements of the voyage to Greenland reminded me of Moby Dick, which I have been vaguely thinking of re-reading.
So, more interesting than my original comments suggested – I just couldn’t fully follow the plot.
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