White Resin

Audre Wilhelmy author Susan Ouriou translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada

Published:21st Oct '21

Should be back in stock very soon

White Resin cover

White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.  

In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl named Dãa, is born to “twenty-four mothers,” the sisters of a convent at the edge of the Quebec taiga. Nearby, at the Kohle mining company, a woman dies giving birth to Laure, a child with albinism, in the workers’ canteen. What follows is a dream-like recounting of their love affair and the family they bear, a captivating magic-realist tale of origins and opposites, that would be fantastical if it did not ring so true to the boreal north. White Resin is at once a dream-like romance and an homage to gorgeous, feral, and fecund nature as it both stands against and entwined with the industrial world.

White Resin is an enchanting, heartbreaking novel.

* Miramichi Reader *

White Resin restores a vision of the Canadian wilderness more in line with Indigenous ideas of a mutually dependent relationship between humanity and the natural environment. As a novel for our ecologically riven moment, it’s particularly powerful. As a lyrical, strange, occasionally mysterious story, it is unlike most anything else you’re likely to read in quite a while.

* That Shakespearean Rag *

[A] poetic, imaginative tale about the relationship between nature and industry.

* Chatelaine *

The lingering power of the story lies with the vivid imagery Wilhelmy conjures … Susan Ouriou’s translation is a marvel of precision and musicality.

* Canadian Notes & Queri

  • Long-listed for Governor General's Literary Award 2022 (Canada)

ISBN: 9781487008864

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 435g

304 pages