“Pure Colour took my breath away. I thought it was a flabbergasting book. The book is so straightforward in its events that I would say the first thing to do with a book like this is accept it almost as if it were a great declarative sentence. What happens—you don’t need to interpret, you just need to accept. I’ve never seen a novel that put this kind of experience with our lost ones into words. Pure Colour offers a new beginning for the novel. I want to recommend it to anyone.” – Michael Silverblatt, Bookworm
Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, Longlisted for the Giller Prize, Shortlisted for the Folio Prize.
Translated into Catalan, Croatian, German, Italian, Arabic, Russian and Spanish.
Listen to interviews with Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm, and David Naimon on Between the Covers.
Read reviews by Judith Schulevitz in The Atlantic, Adam Kirsch in The New Republic, Noreen Khawaja in The Yale Review, Becca Rothfeld in New Left Review, Parul Seghal in The New Yorker, Alexandra Kleeman in The New York Times, Jack Hanson in The Baffler, Nora Caplan-Bricker in Jewish Currents, Marianela D’Aprile in Jacobin, and Lynn Stegner Strong in the LA Times.