How do a novelist, a taxidermist, a donkey, and a howler monkey come together in a story about the Holocaust? In this odd little book, Henry is a novelist whose second book, a Holocaust story, is deemed unpublishable. Henry receives a letter from another man named Henry who sends him a story by Flaubert and a short but intriguing portion of a play and asks for help. Author-Henry goes to meet the other Henry and learns he is a taxidermist by trade. Beatrice, it turns out is a donkey in Taxidermist-Henry's shop. Virgil is the howler monkey sitting on her back. The donkey and monkey are the main characters in the play that Taxidermist-Henry is writing. The two Henrys end up collaborating on the play which is ultimately a tale of genocide. I had a hard time getting into this story and became determined to finish it since was so short.
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