{"product_id":"martyr-a-novel-by-kaveh-akbar","title":"Martyr! A Novel by Kaveh Akbar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCyrus 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 lifein 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKaveh Akbar’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartyr!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKAVEH AKBAR\u003c\/strong\u003e’s poems appear in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: \u003ci\u003ePilgrim Bell\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCalling a Wolf a Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e, in addition to a chapbook, \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Alcoholic\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets onthe Divine.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Iowa City.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Booktique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67726333378620,"sku":null,"price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/4879\/8012\/files\/9780593685778_cfl.jpg?v=1792601732","url":"https:\/\/www.booktique.ca\/products\/martyr-a-novel-by-kaveh-akbar","provider":"Booktique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}