Pure Colour

Heti, Sheila

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

’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

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.

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

Kustantaja: Penguin
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9781529114539
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2023
Kirjastoluokka: 84.5 Kaunokirjallisuus