The Glass Ice

About this book

In the brutal winter of 1901, the fragile peace of a remote Greenland trading station is shattered by the arrival of a foreign ethnographic film crew. Aqissiaq 'Aki' Jørgensen, a mixed-heritage interpreter who has spent his life keeping his head down, is forced to translate the increasingly dangerous demands of the crew's charismatic director, Hildebrand Voss. As the filmmakers stage 'authentic' native life for their cameras, their reckless pursuit of spectacle leads to the tragic death of a young hunter named Sizwe. Caught between the complicity of the station's Danish administrator, Aneurin, the misguided intentions of Father Mikkelsen, and the fierce cultural preservation of the Inuit midwife Sila, Aki must finally choose a side. Abandoning his passive survival strategy, Aki orchestrates a quiet but devastating resistance to destroy the exploitation captured on the glass plates before it can be shipped back to Europe.

Book details

Genres:

Historical Fiction

Language:

en

Published:

2026-03-24

Content rating:

R