The Key / An Eochair Literary Ducornet creates modern-day fables filled

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

known as Al Hamad through all the seraglios of the East

grew up under a stifling dictatorship

" —Stig Sæterbakken

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

The Key / An Eochair Literary Ducornet creates modern-day fables filledIn 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