Product Description
Pure Colour
Author: Sheila Heti
Format: Paperback
** Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023**
** Winner of the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award in Fiction**
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and more
What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?
In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal - to what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters that strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.
Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling and a shape-shifting epic that is celestially bright and streaked with beauty.
'Beautiful and impossible to put down. Sheila Heti is a genius.' — Avni Doshi
'This one-of-a-kind novel... feels nothing less than vital.' — Observer
'An original, a book that says something new for our difficult times.' — Anne Enright, Guardian
'A treat.' — Stylist
Praise for Sheila Heti:
'Exhilarating...it made me want to write' Sally Rooney, on How Should a Person Be?
'Sheila Heti has broken new ground' — Rachel Cusk, on Motherhood
'Complex, artfully messy and hilarious' Miranda July, on How Should a Person Be?
'Thrilling, very funny, and almost unbearably moving' — Garth Greenwell, on Motherhood
'Courageous, necessary, visionary' — Elif Batuman, on Motherhood
About the Author
Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?, which New York magazine deemed one of the 'New Classics' of the twenty-first century and which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novels have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto and Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.
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