num_pages: 240
description: The Convalescent is 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 Pfliegmand--unlikely bandit unloved lover and historian of the unimportant.
language: English
title: The Convalescent
publisher: McSweeney's