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Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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Isabel Turner Branch | Largetype Fiction Akbar | On loan until: 14/May/24 |
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Title Statement | Martyr! [text (large print)] / Kaveh Akbar. |
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Author | Akbar, Kaveh |
Publication | New York: Random House Large Print,[2024]©2024 |
Edition | Large print edition. |
Extent of Item | 445 pages (large print) ; |
ISBN | 9780593862759 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07301974 |
General Notes | Originally published in standard print format: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. |
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."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Families--Fiction |
Grief--Fiction | |
Immigrants--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
Painters--Fiction | |
Terminally ill--Fiction | |
By Location | New York (N.Y.)--Fiction |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
Large print books | |
Psychological fiction | |
Novels |