| Edition |
First edition |
| ISBN |
9780593537619 hardcover |
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0593537610 hardcover |
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9780593537626 electronic book |
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9780593802359 electronic book |
| Descript |
331 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"-- Provided by publisher |
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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 |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso |
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Immigrants -- Fiction
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Painters -- Fiction
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Terminally ill -- Fiction
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Fiction
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Poets -- Fiction
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Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- Fiction
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Iranian Americans -- Fiction
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Psychological fiction
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
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