Pure Colour: A Novel [Paperback]

A new novel about art, love, death, and time from the author ofMotherhoodandHow Should a Person Be?

Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.

In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Miras chest like a portalto what, she doesnt know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters the strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.

Pure Colourtells 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.

Sheila Hetiis the author of ten books, including the novelsMotherhoodandHow Should a Person Be?, whichNew Yorkmagazine deemed one of the New Classics of the twenty-first century. She was named one of the New Vanguard by theNew York Timesbook critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, choseMotherhoodas a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto and Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.

An explicitly mystical book about the creation of art and the creation of the universe, about the death of a father and the death of ego, about the uses and abuses of doubt . . . So new . . . This book, so full of argument, feels weightless. I note this with wonder. . . Hetis books aim to be vessels for the transformation of reader and writer.
Parul Sehgal,The New Yorker

[Hetis] novels are quests for the holy inside the profane . . .Pure Colouris unabashedly metaphysical and completely outlandish. At the same time, this is a book of mourning, speciflƒ`