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Martyr!

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Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.

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Call Number

813.6 AKB M

Publisher

United States of America : Vintage Books., 2024

Collation

331 hlm. ; 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-593-68577-8

Classification

813.6

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Subject(s)

Fiksi Amerika
Imigran — Amerika Serikat — Fiksi

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Akbar, Kaveh

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