num_pages: 224
description: Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive celestially bright huge and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible an atlas of feeling and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience and she has reimagined what a book can hold.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 of the world a woman named Mira leaves home to study. 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 his spirit passes into her. Together they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved even by a leaf. Eventually Mira must remember the human world shes left behind including Annie and choose whether or not to return.
language: English
title: Pure Colour
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux