- American literature, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Cyrus Shams is lost. Ever since his mother’s plane was senselessly shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby, Cyrus has been grappling with her death. Now, newly sober, he is set to learn the truth of her life. When an encounter with a dying artist leads Cyrus towards the mysteries of his past - an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as an Angel of Death, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter – he finds himself once again caught up in the story of his mother, who may not have been who or what she seemed. As Cyrus searches for meaning in the scattered clues of his life, a final revelation transforms everything he thought he knew.
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- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Kaveh Akbar
- First published
- 2024
- Pages
- 380
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Diversified Publishing, Blackie Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781035026081
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Kaveh Akbar is the New York Times bestselling author of the novel ***Martyr!***—a finalist for the National Book Award and one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year—and two books of poetry: ***Pilgrim Bell*** and ***Calling a Wolf a Wolf***. He is also the author of a chapbook, ***Portrait of the Alcoholic*** and editor of ***The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine*** and, with [Paige Lewis](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7978540A/Paige_Lewis), co-editor of ***Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance***.
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