First posted in 1987, Nicole Brossard’s traditional novel results in a new edition. A seminal text message in Canadian and feminist books, Mauve Desert can be a must-read for visitors and writers as well.

This is both a single novel and three separate novels in a single. In the initial, Mauve Desert, fifteen-year-old Mélanie drives over the Az desert inside a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, slicing loose from her mother and her mother’s lover, Lorna, within their roadside Mauve Motel. In the next book, about Mauve Desert Maudes Laures reads Mauve Desert, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on a fantastic search for its mystical author, heroes and meaning. The 3rd reserve – Mauve, the Horizon – can be Laures’s eventual translation of Mauve Desert. Like all great translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original.

Nicole Brossard’s composing is normally agile and inventive; from minute to instant gripping, exhilarating and erotic. Her vocabulary drifts and swells like sand dunes inside a desert, cresting and accumulating into a scenery that shifts like blowing wind and phrases; she translates the practice of translation, the pulse of desire.

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