The Key / An Eochair Literary " —Stig Sæterbakken

" —Stig Sæterbakken

short chapters in a number of styles

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

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

The Key / An Eochair Literary " —Stig SæterbakkenIn 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