Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Cyrus Shams is a newly sober Iranian-American poet obsessed with martyrdom. His mother died when a US warship shot down her passenger plane over the Gulf. His father worked a chicken farm in Indiana until his heart gave out. Cyrus wants his own death to mean something.

In a Brooklyn museum he finds an artist dying of cancer in public as her final work, and goes to talk to her. Akbar is a poet first, and the novel moves through dreams, uncles, an angel, and a book of martyrs Cyrus is writing, before arriving at a revelation that reframes everything behind it.

A National Book Award finalist and one of the most acclaimed debuts of recent years.

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