Martyr!
The Instant New York Times Bestseller
by Kaveh Akbar
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Pub Date 7 Mar 2024 | Archive Date Not set
Pan Macmillan | Picador
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Description
‘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
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize for Fiction 2024
Named a best book of 2024 by THE NEW YORK TIMES, Amazon, CBS and TIME
'This book vibrates with love of life, beauty and language. I'm in awe'
Natalie Portman
'Smart, dazzling, different . . . This book is thrilling.'
Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake
'I haven't stopped thinking about it. Sensational.'
Daily Mail
'Nothing short of miraculous'
Junot Diaz, New York Times
'A kaleidoscopic debut'
Guardian
'A literary gem . . . Martyr! invites you to read with a highlighter in hand'
Observer
'Elegant, dizzying, playful.'
Lauren Groff, author of Matrix
'Martyr! is an astounding debut'
The Irish Times
'Brilliant'
LA TIimes
‘Reading Martyr! Is a delight’
The Washington Post
Cyrus Shams has always been lost. He’s 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, he’s headed for an encounter that will transform everything he thought he knew. Can a final revelation change the truth of Cyrus's life?
* Martyr! was an instant New York Times bestseller w/c 27/1/24
Advance Praise
'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
'Kaveh Akbar renders the full spectrum of life, and death, with great beauty and care' Raven Leilani, author of Luster
'Martyr! will stay in my soul for good―a fever dream, a reckoning, a heartbreak, a shattering and mending, a delight―its double-helix of dreams and conversation now part of my own DNA' Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams
'Akbar is a black-belt storyteller, and MARTYR! is a page-turner I couldn’t put down. Buy this book!' Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club
'I can’t remember the last time a book made me feel like this. Martyr! is simply extraordinary. Kaveh Akbar has written a novel that will stay with me forever.' Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781035026067 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 352 |
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