that Tørk Hviid had chased Isaiah off the roof to his death, she pursues him out onto the frozen sea. He tries to reach the ship and force it to sail away, but Smilla chases him, using her intuitive ice-sense to head him off, out into isolation and danger. Here the novel ends. Reception The New York Times called the novel a "publishing sensation" that "was America’s gateway drug to a long-term dependency on Nordic noir." It was named the 1993 Best Book of the Year by both Time and Entertainment Weekly and spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. The novel was translated into seventeen languages, and published in over thirty countries. As a genre novel, the book won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award for Fiction in 1994, and was shortlisted for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. It also won the 1994 Dilys Award, chosen by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association as the mystery title of the year that member booksellers most enjoyed selling. Literary critics have since considered its cultural themes, such as viewing it as a response to the "greed is good" spirit of the 1980s that pervaded Denmark and other western countries, showing "Danish society in terms of its limitations and injustices, particularly in relation to its treatment of Greenland and Greenlanders." Or as a nation coming to grips with its colonial past, showing "a number of puzzles that a colonial, and later a capitalist, hegemony and subordination" set up. Film adaptation The film, Smilla's Sense of Snow starring Julia Ormond, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Jürgen Vogel, Mario Adorf and Tom Wilkinson, directed by Bille August was released in 1997. There were some changes to the plot, especially having a more conclusive end in which the villain Tørk Hviid gets killed, instead of the book's deliberately ambiguous ending. In the United Kingdom it was released as Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow. Awards and nominations Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award in 1994. Winner of the Dilys Award for 1994 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Shortlisted for an Edgar Award in 1994. See also ALH84001 - a meteorite which shows structures that some scientists think could be fossilised bacteria-like life forms when observed through an electron microscope. Greenlandic people in Denmark Scandinavian noir References External links Miss Smilla's Feeling for