The release date for the English version of 'Pure Colour' by
Sheila Heti is Feb 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Pure Colour is a book fit for a galaxy: it's big, heavenly brilliant, bursting with beauty, and explosive. It's a modern-day bible, an atlas of emotion, and an insanely humorous manual on the wonderful and awful aspects of life. As a philosopher of contemporary experience, Sheila Heti has rethought the possibilities that lie inside a book.
We are only living in the preliminary version of Creation, crafted by a talented artist who is now preparing to dissect it.
A lady called Mira leaves home to pursue her studies in this earliest draft of the world. She encounters Annie there, whose immense strength opens Mira's chest like a doorway, but she's not sure to what. Mira's dear father passes away when she is older, and his soul becomes part of her. They merge to form a leaf on a tree. However, photosynthesis becomes monotonous, and existence is an insurmountable challenge—even for a leaf. Mira will eventually have to choose whether or not to return to the human world she left behind, including Annie.