Pure Colour

** 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

** 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

A new novel about art, love, death, and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. 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 the strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up. Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

A new novel about art, love, death, and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. 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 the strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up. Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.