Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOK AWARD - A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr> heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

A>NEW YORK TIMES>NOTABLE BOK - A TIME MUST-READ BOK OF THE YEAR>

Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever. --Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of>There There

The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness. --Lauren Groff, best-selling author of>Matrix and>Fates and Furies

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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ISBN 10	0593862759
Title	Martyr!
Author	Kaveh Akbar
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Diversified Publishing
Year published	2024-01-23
Number of pages	464
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