Martyr!
(Book Club Kit)
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Published:
[Broomfield, CO] : [Broomfield Library], [2025].
Format:
Book Club Kit
Physical Desc:
8 books ; 24 cm + 1 folder (30 cm)
Status:
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"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. Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others."--Back cover.
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Broomfield Book Groups in a Bag
BGB 41
Due Mar 15, 2025
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Language:
Unknown
Notes
General Note
Book is 9780593685778 (pbk.), written by Kaveh Akbar, published by Vintage Books and originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York, 2024.
Description
"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. Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others."--Back cover.
Local note
MDE: Book bags cannot be renewed.
Local note
MDE: housed in canvas bag 30 x 45 cm.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Akbar, K. (2025). Martyr! [Broomfield Library].
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh. 2025. Martyr! [Broomfield Library].
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh, Martyr! [Broomfield Library], 2025.
MLA Citation (style guide)Akbar, Kaveh. Martyr! [Broomfield Library], 2025.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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| Last File Modification Time | Apr 01, 2025 09:50:09 PM |
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