Martyr!
(Book)
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Published:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©2024.
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Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
331 pages ; 25 cm
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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.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593537619, 0593537610
Notes
General Note
"This is a Borzoi book."
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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.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Akbar, K. (2024). Martyr! First edition. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh. 2024. Martyr! Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh, Martyr! Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
MLA Citation (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh. Martyr! First edition. Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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