{"product_id":"martyr-kaveh-akbar","title":"Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDescription\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMatrix\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaveh Akbar’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMartyr!\u003c\/span\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e352 pages, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6.44 x 1.26 x 9.53 inches, \u003c\/span\u003ehardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45173638070497,"sku":"9780593537619","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9558\/8015\/files\/Screenshot2024-05-14at8.41.38PM.png?v=1715733706","url":"https:\/\/pressshopatl.shop\/products\/martyr-kaveh-akbar","provider":"Pressshopatl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}