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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Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Pocket
Författare: Kaveh Akbar
Förlag: Random House US
Språk: Engelska
Mått (bxhxd): 132x204x20 mm
Vikt: 255 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9780593685778
SKU: 858352