Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
07 March 2024
9781035026104Synopsis
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024
ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
‘I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life’ John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars
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.
Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
'An absolute jewel of a novel. I haven’t loved a book this much in years’ Tommy Orange, author of There, There
I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life.John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars
Kaveh Akbar is a radiant soul, a poet so agile and largehearted it comes as no surprise that his first leap into fiction is elegant, dizzying, playful.Lauren Groff, author of The Matrix
An absolute jewel of a novel. A diamond. I haven’t loved a book this much in years. Kaveh’s writing is so thoroughly powerful and gorgeous you can feel it from where dreams come . . . This book does everything.Tommy Orange, author of There, There
