Martyr!

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Profoundly moving' Elif Shafak

'Dazzling' Ann Patchett

Gorgeous Tommy Orange

Radiant Lauren Groff

Stunning John Green

Miraculous' The New York Times

Sensational Daily Mail

Kaleidoscopic The Guardian

A young man uncovers the truth behind his mothers death in this haunting debut that takes you from New York to Tehran.

Cyrus 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.

An instant New York Times Bestseller

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize

Book of the Year in The Observer, The New York Times, and The New Yorker

A National Book Award Finalist

* Martyr! was an instant New York Times bestseller w/c 27/1/24