The Key / An Eochair Literary as well as a scintillating

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

known as Al Hamad through all the seraglios of the East

grew up under a stifling dictatorship

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

The Key / An Eochair Literary as well as a scintillatingIn 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