Martyr!
Akbar, Kaveh2024
Large Print
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.
Main title:
Martyr! / Kaveh Akbar.
Author:
Akbar, Kaveh, author
Work:
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
New York : Random House Large Print, 2024.©2024
Collation:
331 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781035026074 (paperback)1035026074 (paperback)9781035026067
Dewey class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2281027