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Martyr!

Martyr! Hardcover - 2024

by Akbar, Kaveh

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. Reprint. Hardcover. New/New. 331pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black paper over boards with title stamped in gilt on backstrip. "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • 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. "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." - From the publisher.
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  • Title Martyr!
  • Author Akbar, Kaveh
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, New York
  • Date 2024
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 66758
  • ISBN 9780593537619 / 0593537610
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 6.1 x 1.6 in (25.40 x 15.49 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Novels
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023008466
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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  • Booklist, 12/01/2023, Page 98
  • BookPage, 02/01/2024, Page 0
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  • Library Journal, 01/26/2024, Page 1
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 08/01/2023, Page 5
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/16/2023, Page 0
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About the author

KAVEH AKBAR's poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.

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