{"product_id":"9780735273245","title":"Library of Brothel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e Globe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eSpring 2026 Read\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe long-anticipated, wildly inventive new novel by the Irish-Canadian writer whose previous work won the Amazon First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Goldsmith’s Prize (UK).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“One of the most unique, most compelling voices in fiction.” \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Like her absurdist compatriots – Beckett, Joyce, O’Brien – Schofield’s novels are existentially confounding, syntactically wild, and buckshot with wit.” \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Schofield’s style feels almost decadently addictive.” \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiotous, dramatic, passionate and funny, \u003ci\u003eLibrary of Brothel\u003c\/i\u003e is a cri de coeur for human connection and the right to meaningful work.","brand":"Anakana Schofield (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":48270288748766,"sku":"9780735273245","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_461bb0f3-f27b-498d-b028-59cbaab4cd1e.jpg?v=1779341751","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/fr\/products\/9780735273245","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}