Pure ColourSheila HetiLabel: VintageDescription: ** 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 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 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
