Autor Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti sa v knihe Materstvo pýta, čo žena získa a stratí, keď sa stane matkou, a toto najzávažnejšie rozhodnutie ranej dospelosti spracúva s otvorenosťou, originalitou a humorom, ktoré jej priniesli medzinárodné uznanie. Rozprávačkou tohto intímneho…

Sheila Heti collected hald a millions words from a decade's worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy…

Kolik otázek si žena položí v souvislosti s mateřstvím? První: Být, či nebýt matkou? Druhá: Kdy být matkou? Třetí: Stanu-li se matkou, budu nadále také ženou? Svobodnou ženou? Sheila Heti psala knihu několik let před čtyřicítkou, závěr dokončila už po…

'It made me want to write' Sally Rooney'A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity' Margaret Atwood'A classic in the making' StylistSheila's twenties were going to plan. She got married. She hosted parties.A theatre asked her…

'Beautiful and impossible to put down. Sheila Heti is a genius.' Avni Doshi'This one-of-a-kind novel... feels nothing less than vital.' Observer'Pure Colour is an original, a book that says something new for our difficult times.' Anne Enright, Guardian'A…

Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities-famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old-on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every…

Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim. Having reached an age when most of her peers…

'A response - finally - to the new norms of femininity' Rachel CuskHaving reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over…

'A story about making art and living on this planet...Beautiful and impossible to put down. Sheila Heti is a genius' Avni DoshiWhat if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?In this first draft, a woman named…