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
'Pure Colour is an original, a book that says something new for our difficult times.' Anne Enright, Guardian
'A treat to read.' Stylist
*A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, Daily Mail, AnOther and Cosmopolitan Books for 2022 pick*
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 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.
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(Toronto, 1976) És autora d'una desena de llibres, entre els quals _How should a person be?_ i _Maternitat_ (Més Llibres, 2019). _The New York Times_ la va seleccionar com un dels quinze escriptors de tot el món que estan «canviant la manera com llegim i escrivim ficció al segle XXI». _The Washington Post_ la va anomenar «una de les persones més originals, divertides i enginyoses que escriuen avui... una de les nostres millors autores vives». _How should a person be?_ va ser escollit per als dotze «Nous clàssics del segle XXI» per _Vulture_. Els seus llibres s'han traduït a vinti- cinc idiomes.