The Key / An Eochair Literary A bedraggled detective is dispatched

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

looking up at the night sky

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

The Key / An Eochair Literary A bedraggled detective is dispatchedIn 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