The Convalescent

✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;Anthony, Jessica

• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 152 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0802197000

✦ Synopsis

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CHRYSALIS; I JUNE 15; II EVOLUTION OF THE PFLIEGMANS: THE ELEVENTH TRIBE; III WHITE PEOPLE; IV EVOLUTION OF THE PFLIEGMANS: THE SACRIFICE OF ENNI HÚS AND HIS FINE HAT; V A PILL FOR EVERYTHING; VI WRITE HOW YOU FEEL; VII EVOLUTION OF THE PFLIEGMANS: THE BIRTH OF SZERETLEK; VIII MARCH 18; IX PROPERTY OF SUBDIVISIONS LLC; X EVOLUTION OF THE PFLIEGMANS: THE PECHENEGS ADVANCE; XI KABÁT TOLVAJOK; METAMORPHOSIS; XII THE CAPTAIN AND THE QUEECONOCOCHEECOOK; XIII EVOLUTION OF THE PFLIEGMANS: THE GREAT LEG-WRESTLING CHAMPION OF TENTH-CENTURY HUNGARY;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 Akos Pfliegman'unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- Literary