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Martyr!

Akbar, Kaveh (author).

Summary: "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: 0593537610
  • ISBN: 9780593537619
  • Physical Description: 331 pages ; 25 cm.
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

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"This is a Borzoi book"

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Subject: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction
Iranian Americans Fiction
Alcoholics Rehabilitation Fiction
Poets Fiction
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Fiction
Terminally ill Fiction
Painters Fiction
Immigrants Fiction
Genre: Novels.
Psychological fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lawrence County Federated Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at New Castle Public Library.

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Bookplate: Given to the New Castle Public Library by the Jane Jackson Memorial Collection.
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