Fiction. Translated from the French by Susanne de LotbinireHarwood. Fifteenyearold Melanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasingfear and de... » 

Fiction. Translated from the French by Susanne de LotbinireHarwood. Fifteenyearold Melanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasingfear and desire and the mysterious Angela Parkins and breaking free from hermother and her mothers lover in their roadside Mauve Motel. And then we arewith Maude Laures as she reads Mauve Desert this story of Melanie and becomesobsessed with it. She embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysteriousauthor characters and meaning which leads us into the third part Mauve theHorizon Lauress eventual translation of Mauve Desertlike all goodtranslations it is both the same and enticingly different from the original.Nicole Brossards writing is agile and inventive exhilarating and eroticMargaret Atwood says its full of brilliant sparks and white hot fragments.Originally published in 1990 MAUVE DESERT is a defining work of Canadianfiction and a perennial favorite. «