Cyrus lives

June 19, 2025

A renowned “martyr!”, Iranian-American novel Cave akbar (Tehran, 1989), the finalist of the National Book Award, follows the traces of Cyrus, a young poet born in Persia that his father was brought to the United States when he was a child. Cyrus, who lost his mother shortly after birth, when the aircraft he traveled was accidentally knocked down to the Persian Gulf, his whole life fought against depression, insomnia and addiction. He also forced his father’s death to deal with the death of his parent. Pain, racism, uselessness and alienation plan their existence. Family ghosts are pushing him to sit with death, his purpose and a martyr. Among the many stories that cross the pages of the novel are, for example, the stories of his uncle who passed through the Iranian battlefields with a flashlight under the face, which represents an angel of death to reassure dying and suffer a severe post -traumatic stress disorder. But, calm, you don’t have to worry. This is the primary Opera in general poetry, which is in some prestigious literary publications – “The New Yorker”, “Paris Review or” Poetry magazine ” – in a country that welcomed him when I welcomed him when I read his novel, about the KABEH Akbar. “Literary heir Pamuk orhanwith the emotional intensity of Maggie O’Farrell, existential lyricism Olga Tokarczuk and anti -imperism Salman Rushdie. And at the same time absolutely new and unique. “Take now! It is hard to use so many heterogeneys in one to advertise Akbar’s virtues that have them, but in a way.

Kaveh Akbar, Pablo García. /.

Akbar Kaveh is definitely imaginative, endowed with agile writing, and keeps an enviable coherence in its debut on the website that allows him to get out of the mixture to which he joins, and that he might seem to be connected throughout the text. In this way, the reader proves how every element of the story keeps meaning, just as it happens as a whole. Surprisingly, there is a veteran shop with a debut novelist who is Akbar. Like a certain master of humor cool for the book. The poet, the owner of jumping prose, words dance from entertainment to brilliant, from lightness to depth, I do not say philosophical, although it is supposedly. Author “Martyr!” He is able to entertain in a surrealistic way at the same time as it dares to penetrate the human depth through Cyrus, who is trying to survive between the many spirits and demons, while examining sexuality and addiction, guilt and biker. I do not know how much there is an alter ego kavheh Akbar in Cyrus, but the novel will not escape the suspicion of this current trend of authors who want to reincarnate in their characters. In short, “Martyr!” It is a good intertwined story of small fun stories that would entertain me even more to read them for several years. But I say it is a good novel with all the ingredients to please the great read public without having to give up literature.