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Martyr! Cover Image Large Print Book Large Print Book

Martyr! [text (large print)] / Kaveh Akbar.

Akbar, Kaveh, (author.).

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593862759 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 445 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2024]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in standard print format: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Subject: Families > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Immigrants > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Painters > Fiction.
Terminally ill > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Large print books.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Cookstown Branch LP FIC Akbar 31681010356970 LARGEPT Available -


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