The Key / An Eochair Literary

The Key / An Eochair LiteraryIn An Eochair (The Key), one of Mirtn Cadhains most Kafkaesque novella, J., a paper keeper, accidentally locks himself in his office when his key breaks in the lock. The novellaa mixture of satire, farce, black comedy, and, ultimately, tragedyrelates the efforts of J. and various other characters, including his wife, civil service colleagues, and superiors, as they try to extricate J. from his predicament. Yet all efforts to free J. must be in

Ducornet creates modern-day fables filled with characters as complex and surprising as any in American short fiction

short chapters in a number of styles

looking up at the night sky

known as Al Hamad through all the seraglios of the East

it is a near-exhaustive catalog of the ramifications and effects of the act of suicide

grew up under a stifling dictatorship

as well as a scintillating and often wry commentary on a great author’s peers and influences

" —Stig Sæterbakken

wrote three collaborative novels with Joseph Conrad

A bedraggled detective is dispatched to an IDF base where a man was burned alive while making a training film

Almino won the 2003 Casa de las Américas Award for The Five Seasons of Love and the 2011 Prêmio Passo Fundo Zaffari & Bourbon de Literatura for Free City

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