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âOne of the most amusing and poignant anti-heroes since Gunter Grassâs The Tin Drumâ lives up to his misfit heritage in this ribald debut (Spike Magazine). Â Ask Rovar Ãkos Pfliegman about himself and heâll say: âI have no life. I have no known relatives, no known friends. Iâm barely human. Iâm a hairy little Hungarian pulp. I am a sorry gathering of organs. That is all.â But there is more to Rovar than meets the eye. He has a pet beetle named Mrs. Kipner, he is a butcher plagued by rare ailments, he sells meat out of a broken-down bus next to a river in suburban Virginia, and he is the last of the Pfliegman line, a not-too-bright pagan clan that reaches back to pre-medieval Hungary. He also believes heâll fulfill the ignoble destiny of inbred self-destruction that has wiped out all Pfliegmans before him. But against all odds, and the cruel laws of nature, this unlikely loner, seller of fresh mutton at unbeatable prices, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant is still capable of being reborn in the most extraordinary way. Â âInnocent and wise, grave and hilarious, bleak and hopeful, fast-paced and meditative, heartbreaking and heart healthy, evanescent and concreteâ (Heidi Julavits), The Convalescent ânods to all sorts of greatsâKafka, Rushdie, Darwin and Grass, to name a few. But Anthonyâs styleâfunny, immediate and unapologetically cerebralâcarves out a space all its ownâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review). |
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