Martyr!
(Book)
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Status
Rock County Community Library - Adult Fiction
AKBAR
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AKBAR
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
Description
"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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Akbar, K. (2024). Martyr! (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh. 2024. Martyr!. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh. Martyr! Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh. Martyr! First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
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