EAN: 9780593685778

AKBAR KAVEH MARTYR!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • 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.   NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR  
“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.

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