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