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

by Adam Thirlwell

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

April 2008, 592 pages, $30.00

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After finishing this book you'll want to call in sick for a month and burrow into a teetering tower of modernist works.

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