Cover image for Martyr!
Title:
Martyr!
Summary:
"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.

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.
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
331 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf,
Publication Date:
2024
ISBN:
9780593537619
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

©2024
Call Number:
AKBAR
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