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Jan 23, 2024 · 4.24. 10,247 ratings2,111 reviews. Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which 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 ...
Jan 29, 2024 · Martyr! follows Cyrus Shams, a young man born in Persia who was brought to the United States by his father when he was a baby. Cyrus, who lost his mother soon after birth when the plane she was...
Jan 19, 2024 · Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar. Cyrus Shams, the aching protagonist at the heart of Kaveh Akbar’s incandescent first novel, is a veritable Rushdiean multitude: an Iranian-born American, a “bad ...
Jan 23, 2024 · This is a book that understands the strangeness and grief and ecstasy of being alive; that understands the strange envelope of a body, the proximate sublime on the bare chest of a beloved; the baffled wonderment of sobriety, the grief that spans every scale of the human project—and, more than anything, the impossible salvation of love ...
- Kaveh Akbar
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original ...
Jan 23, 2024 · Kaveh Akbar’s ‘Martyr!’ is a wonderfully strange delight. The acclaimed poet’s debut novel approaches big questions about personal and civilizational death with a glorious sense of whimsy. Review...
Jan 23, 2024 · Martyr!: A novel Kindle Edition. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK• A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum ...
- Kaveh Akbar
