Pure Colour: the new novel from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?

Heartbreaking, Exciting, Profound- A Short Epic That Reimagines What The Novel Can Do After God Created The Heavens And The Earth, He Stood Back To Contemplate Creation, Like A Painter Standing Back From The Canvas. This Is The Moment We Are Living In - The Moment Of God Standing Back. In This First Draft Of Existence, 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. This Is A Book About The Shape Of A Life, From Beginning To End. It's About Art, Critics, And Ageing. It's About The Surrounding World - Sky, Trees, Lakes, Stars - And 'the World Beyond This World', Which Can Be Glimpsed In Rare Moments When Something Shattering Occurs. Pure Colour Is A Galaxy Of A Novel- Explosive, Celestially Bright, Huge, And Streaked With Beauty. It's A Contemporary Bible, An Atlas Of Feeling, And Its Shape-shifting, Mystical Form Allows Us To Take In The Whole World In One Glance. Sheila Heti Is A Philosopher Of Modern Experience, And She Has Reimagined What A Book Can Hold.