The Key / An Eochair Literary Almino won the 2003 Casa

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

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

known as Al Hamad through all the seraglios of the East

The Key / An Eochair Literary Almino won the 2003 CasaIn 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