PURE COLOUR PB – SHEILA HETI

** 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