The Convalescentis the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia . . . and also, somehow, the story of ten thousand years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Rovar kos Pfliegmanunlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.

Format: Paperback
Published: USA, 2010
Publisher:Grove Pr
Pages: 243
Language: English
ISBN 13:9780802144959
ISBN 10:0802144950