Pure Colour
Book formats
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Hardcover 4 451руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Sheila Heti
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Language
- english
- Release date
- February 17, 2022
- ISBN
- 9781787302808
- GTIN
- 9781787302808
About
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.