SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023 WINNER OF THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERALS LITERARY AWARD IN FICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and moreWhat 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 Miras chest like a portal to what, she doesnt 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 shapeshifting epic that is celestially bright and streaked with beauty.Beautiful and impossible to put down. Sheila Heti is a genius. Avni DoshiThis oneofakind novel... feels nothing less than vital. ObserverAn original, a book that says something new for our difficult times. Anne Enright, GuardianA treat. StylistPRAISE FOR SHEILA HETIExhilarating...it made me want to write Sally Rooney, on How Should a Person Be?Sheila Heti has broken new ground Rachel Cusk, on MotherhoodComplex, artfully messy and hilarious Miranda July, on How Should a Person Be? Thrilling, very funny, and almost unbearably moving Garth Greenwell, on MotherhoodCourageous, necessary, visionary Elif Batuman, on Motherhood

Binding: Paperback;224 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 282 g; Dimensions: 129 x 199 x 17

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