The Body of the Beasts

The 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, Audree 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 *