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“One of the most unique, most compelling voices in fiction.” Toronto Star
“Like her absurdist compatriots – Beckett, Joyce, O’Brien – Schofield’s novels are existentially confounding, syntactically wild, and buckshot with wit.” The Guardian (UK)
“Schofield’s style feels almost decadently addictive.” The New Yorker
“Do you want to come in? Come here. Come in. Stop resisting. You are on the mat now. Just step over it. And in you come.”
Enter Anakana Schofield’s bedazzling “Library of Brothel”: a building perched in a city where jobs are scarce, no one can find a date, and many struggle just to be housed. Rumours swirl around the crumbling structure and rapacious developers have their eyes on it. But what we find inside is a unique economy: customers take shelter, workers love their professions, and each room offers a new kind of intellectual stimulation. How can such a precarious place survive?
Riotous, dramatic, passionate and funny, Library of Brothel is a cri de coeur for human connection and the right to meaningful work.
ANAKANA SCHOFIELD is the author of three acclaimed novels: Bina, Martin John and Malarky. She has been described as “one of Canada’s most stylistically provocative and innovative wordsmiths.” Her novels have won numerous literary awards including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the Amazon.ca Debut Novel Award. She’s been twice shortlisted for the UK Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Martin John was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2015.
Her essays and columns appear regularly in The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star. She’s written for The Guardian, The New York Times The Irish Times and Book Post. She lives in Vancouver, BC.
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