- EAN13
- 9781035026074
- ISBN
- 978-1-03-502607-4
- Éditeur
- Pan MacMillan
- Date de publication
- 07/03/2024
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Martyr (Grand format paperback UK)
Kaveh Akbar
Pan MacMillan
Offres
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21.80
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 Tehran 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.
Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
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"Becoming an earth martyr. It made sense, and then suddenly it didn't."
Martyr! is surely one of the best books I have read in my life. Through the story of Cyrus, a recovering alcoholic obsessed by the idea of martyrdom, Kaveh Akbar weaves a story about addiction, grief, friendship and grace. There ...
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