Download or read book The Task of this Translator written by Todd Hasak-Lowy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first collection of seven short fictional works follows a theme of personal crises interrupted by global issues and features such characters as a journalist who becomes a client of the diet company he investigates, a man who loses his wallet just before a nuclear battle between India and Pakistan, and a slacker who becomes a translator during a bitter family reunion. Original.