NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • ATIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR“Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of There There“The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of Matrix and Fates and FuriesCyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over
One person's "martyr" is another person's "terrorist," and one person's "martyrdom operation" is another's "suicide bombing." Suicide attacks around the world have raised many troubling questions abou
The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically ne
For general readers with an interest in the history of political violence, this volume on suicide bombing examines the tactic in a variety of historical contexts and explores the influence on psycholo
Jihad (or ‘struggle’) and martyrdom in Islam have an ever-greater relevance in today’s world, but there remains a great deal of ignorance about these critical concepts. This new four-volume collection
約翰•米爾斯海默（John J. Mearsheimer）專業推薦美國國家圖書獎得主，聯合國人權理事會任命民主與獨立特別報告員、以巴衝突特別報告員，哈佛大學中東研究中心學者合力推薦加薩戰火最接近事實的調查報告直擊中東衝突的根源這裡的一八五萬人口，有一百萬是難民◎中東地區衝突的根源之一，以色列與巴勒斯坦永不休止的戰火加薩走廊是世界上人口最密集的地方之一。這個位於巴勒斯坦西岸、西奈半島東北部的狹長地帶
Classicists and church historians examine texts mostly from 350-450, when martyr cults and texts flourished and laid the foundation on which much of later medieval and Byzantine hagiography would be b
Mexican Martyrdom is a series of true stories of the terrible anti-Catholic persecutions which took place in Mexico in the 1920s. Told by the Jesuit priest, Fr. Wilfrid Parson, these stories are based
"Martyrdom Street is a luscious tapestry, a cozy quilt, made of the mosaics of lives and loves and fears and tribulations, told by and about Iranian women, with a voice at once poised and decorous and
Martyrs are produced, Elizabeth Castelli suggests, not by the lived experience of particular historical individuals but by the stories that are later told about them. And the formulaic character of st
