The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents,

Praised by Tom Stoppard, A.S. Byatt, and critics in the U.S. and the U.K., Thirlwell assembles a playful compendium of anecdotes, photographs, illustrations, lists, indices, appendices, and more to show how even the most stylistically dense novels (of Flaubert, Joyce, Nabokov and others) can in fact always be translated.