'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 *A Guardian; Financial Times; New Statesman; Daily Mail; AnOther and Cosmopolitan Books for 2022 pick* 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