The Convalescent - Tapa dura

'Jessica Anthony is a writer possessed of mind-bending talents. Inconceivably, she's written a novel that's innocent and wise, grave and hilarious, bleak and hopeful, fast-paced and meditative, heartbreaking and heart healthy, evanescent and concrete. The Convalescent is that kind of special.' Heidi Julavits 'A blissfully nutty, brainy, ribald, brilliantly imaginative ode to human loneliness, oddity, and persistence.' Francisco Goldman

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 10,000 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 Akos Pfliegman - unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.