Martyr! : A novel

✍ Scribed by Kaveh Akbar

• Book ID: 112260367
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 467 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593537626

✦ Synopsis

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice __ • 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 , Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
"Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever." --Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of There There
"The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness." --Lauren Groff, best-selling author of Matrix and Fates and Furies
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot...