Pure Colour

** 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 Σελίδες: 224, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm