Pure Colour, Sheila Heti
Pure Colour, Sheila Heti
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Pure Colour
A Novel

Author: Sheila Heti

Narrator: Sheila Heti

Unabridged: 3 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2022


Synopsis

Pure Colour is a galaxy of an audiobook: 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 Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t 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 she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be?, which New York deemed one of the "New Classics" of the twenty-first century. She was named one of the "New Vanguard" by the New York Times book critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, chose Motherhood as a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lark on August 03, 2022

Every sentence opened me. I felt as if this book were speaking to me privately and intimately, about private joys and private melancholy. I fell into a profound sense of being in a personal conversation with what I was reading on the page. I was reminded of what I should be paying attention to in my......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on December 04, 2021

I have pestered many people into reading How Should A Person Be? and Motherhood, and I'm about to be so annoying about this one as well.......more

Goodreads review by emma on March 09, 2023

anything described as "a galaxy of a novel" is something i want to read. much like a galaxy, this contained some good stuff (like being beautifully written) and some bad stuff (like being weird). the beautifully written bit is of the Sentences That Will Change Your Whole Perspective While Being Poetic......more

Goodreads review by David on May 12, 2022

One day the universe got high and ejaculated and out came this book. I don’t think this is as inventive or profound as some people do. But if you like Sheila Heti, and are in a certain head space, then by all means light an incense candle, sample a tincture, and enjoy this book.......more

Goodreads review by ally on April 06, 2022

i changed my mind this is a five star just can't stop thinking about this loved the profound simplicity loved getting lost in a leaf......more


Awards

  • New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year
  • New Yorker Best Books of the Year
  • New York Magazine Best Books of the Year
  • Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year