Author: Akbar, Kaveh
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 7 March 2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 352 pages
224 x 143 x 31 | 466g
˜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 StarsAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2024A BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE FINALISTSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD 2024NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, AMAZON, TIME AND SARAH JESSICA PARKERON BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2024'Smart, dazzling, different . . . This book is thrilling.'Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake'An absolute jewel of a novel'Tommy Orange, Booker-longlisted author of Wandering Stars'A kaleidoscopic debut'GuardianCyrus Shams has always been lost. Hes grown up tangled in the mysteries of his past' an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter, and his mother, whose plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby. Now, newly sober and maybe in love, hes headed for an encounter that will transform everything he thought he knew. Can a final revelation change the truth of Cyrus's life?Electrifying, funny, and all-consuming, Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! is a masterpiece.
* Martyr! was an instant New York Times bestseller w/c 27/1/24