Library of Brothel

“It’s a proper achievement and it’s not like anything else.” —Eimear McBride

“I am just in awe of Anakana Schofield. I read her like poetry, letting the accumulation of language and ideas to create something in my brain. I loved Library of Brothel; it is weird and edgy, a wrecking ball that is very Anakana. She is one of the few people doing something different and virtuous.” —Yuri Herrera

“Her mind is a mad and brilliant place and this is Vonnegut on Irish acid with an intellect. This is incredible. I love the IMAGINATION.” —Elaine Feeley

”Lib­rary of Brothel is a call to cul­tiv­ate and pro­tect human con­nec­tions … in an absurd­ist fash­ion, the novel warns of social extinc­tion as it holds a mir­ror up to today’s tech-dom­in­ated, unaf­ford­able world.” —The Province

“Schofield has always pushed form in her novels, but she tips it off the cliff in this one, set in a mysterious building with moving rooms whose worker denizens—led by Noble Leader (“a fatter Fidel Castro without cigars”)—are allowed to engage in intellectual pursuits as long as they conform to a very specific series of house rules (unpublished poetry, gardening tools and mouth organs are all banned).”
—The Globe and Mail

“Anakana Schofield’s fiction has always demanded attention with its innovative structures and intellectual challenges. Her latest, Library of Brothel, is perhaps the most fabulist of all. In a library besieged by the outside world, the various rooms themselves jostle with each other for what is valued and how they can coexist.” —Quill and Quire

“As a reader, I am thrilled by how far and how deep [Schofield] drives her narratives; as a writer, I am deeply jealous of how confident, ornery, and funny [her] books are … Library of Brothel is a big swing of a novel.” —Nathan Whitlock, The Walrus

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 has 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 has written for The Guardian, the New York Times, the Irish Times, and Book Post.

She lives in Vancouver, BC.

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