Overview
āKaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.ā āTommy Orange, Pulitzer Prizeānominated author of There There
āThe best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.ā āLauren 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 motherās plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his fatherās 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 pastātoward 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 Akbarās Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaningāin faith, art, ourselves, others.
This book title, Martyr! (A novel), ISBN: 9780593537619, by Kaveh Akbar, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (January 23, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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