Task of This Translator

Name: Task of This Translator
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ISBN: 9780156031127

ISBN-10: 0156031124

ISBN-13: 9780156031127

Edition: 2005

Authors: Todd Hasak-Lowy

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Stylistically daring, morally perplexing, and outrageously funny, Todd Hasak-Lowy's The Task of This Translator marks the debut of a writer of extraordinary talent. In these seven stories, Hasak-Lowy captures the absurdity that often arises when very personal crises intersect with global issues such as ethnic violence, obesity, and the media. A journalist sets out to write an investigative piece on a dieting company that uses bodyguards to protect overeaters from themselves but loses his bearings when he becomes a client and is paired up with a bodyguard of his own. In the coffee shop of Israel's Holocaust memorial museum, a stale pastry triggers a brawl between an American tourist and the…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



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