Mauve Desert Audiobook (Free)

First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard’s traditional novel results in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is usually a must-read for visitors and writers alike.

That is both a single book and three distinct novels in a single. In the 1st, Mauve Desert, fifteen-year-old Mélanie drives over the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, trimming loose from her mother and her mother’s lover, Lorna, within their roadside Mauve Motel. In the next publication, about Mauve Desert Maudes Laures reads Mauve Desert, turns into obsessed with it, and embarks on a fantastic search for its mystical author, personas and meaning. The third reserve – Mauve, the Horizon – is normally Laures’s eventual translation of Mauve Desert. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly not the same as the original.

Nicole Brossard’s composing is agile and inventive; from second to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic. Her language drifts and swells like fine sand dunes in a desert, cresting and accumulating into a scenery that shifts like blowing wind and words; she translates the practice of translation, the pulse of desire.

Bespeak Sound Editions provides Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s very best works of literature, performed by Canadian stars.