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The Task of This Translator Brochura - 2005
por Todd Hasak-Lowy
The author captures the absurdity that often arises when very personal crises intersect with global issues such as ethnic violence, obesity, and the media in this collection of short stories.
Resumo
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 Israeli cashier. A man misplaces his wallet shortly before a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan. An unwilling and mostly unqualified slacker finds himself cast into the role of translator for the bitter reunion of a family torn apart years earlier by unspecified brutality.
A standout story collection, The Task of This Translator is funny, intricate, and deeply human.
Descrição da contracapa
"If Hasak-Lowy were a juggler, he would be the kind who could juggle an elephant and an orange at the same time. Instead he is a writer whose stories combine the global with the personal in ways that are incisive, thought-provoking, smart and, most importantly, FUNNY."--Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season
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 finds entry into daunting matters such as genocide and obesity through the absurd experiences of a series of unlikely protagonists.
A journalist sets out to write an investigative piece on a dieting company that uses bodyguards to protect overeaters from themselves, but loses his journalistic 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 Israeli cashier. An unwilling and mostly unqualified slacker finds himself cast into the role of translator for the bitter reunion of a family torn apart years earlier by unspecified brutality.
"Todd Hasak-Lowy's brilliant combination of cynicism and compassion gives his storytelling its unique power."--Etgar Keret, author of The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God
Todd Hasak-Lowy was born in Detroit. He is an assistant professor of modern Hebrew literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
Detalhes
- Título The Task of This Translator
- Autor Todd Hasak-Lowy
- Encadernação Brochura
- Edição 1st Edition
- Páginas 252
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Harper Paperbacks, Orlando, FL, et al.
- Data de publicação 2005-06-01
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780156031127 / 0156031124
- Peso 0.56 libras (0.25 kg)
- Dimensão 8.1 x 6.28 x 0.65 in. (20.57 x 15.95 x 1.65 cm)
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2004017846
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Revisões da mídia
"These are inventive, delightful stories by a startling new talent, easy in their modernity, classic in their authoritative tone, and secretly fitted with deep structures of irony and pity."
-MICHAEL CHABON , author of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY
Citações
- Booklist, 05/01/2005, Page 1569
- Ingram Advance, 06/01/2005, Page 78
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2005, Page 138
- Library Journal, 06/15/2005, Page 63
- Publishers Weekly, 03/21/2005, Page 34
- Vanity Fair, 08/01/2005, Page 70
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