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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Body of the Beasts is a visceral story with wings: rhythmically beating, it both suffocates readers and prepares us to soar.
* World Literature Today *
The Body of the Beasts is daring and darkly erotic, as emotionally and morally elusive as the characters who roam within it … Wilhelmy’s language is tight yet immersive; there is an underlying melancholy to it, like being alone in a forest with nothing but the sound of rustling leaves. It is rare and delightful to find a novel where language and character move so seamlessly together, hand in hand … A piece of this book will linger. * Literary Review of Canada *
Sensual and strange. * Booklist *
[Wilhelmy] is a meticulous recorder of the dramatic wilderness … Lovely writing. * Kirkus Reviews *
Masterful … Finding beauty in unexpected places, be they natural settings or seldom-explored corners of human behaviour, is something Wilhelmy does as well as any young writer in any language. * Montreal Gazette *
With a miniaturist’s touch, Audrée Wilhelmy creates a singular universe suffused with sap and silence, at once lush to the limit, smothering and amoral … A tour de force of audacity and sensuality achieved unhesitatingly in full-bodied writing that is precise and without misstep. A brilliant novel that explores from on high an aspect of the human condition too often eluded: our own bestiality. * Le Devoir *
