Pure Colour

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023**
** WINNER OF THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERALS 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 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 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

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PRAISE FOR SHEILA HETI:
Exhilarating...it made me want to write Sally Rooney, on How Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti has broken new groundRachel 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, visionaryElif Batuman, on Motherhood