‘I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life' JOHN GREEN, author of <i>The Fault in Our Stars</i><p><b>A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN:</b><br><b><i>The New York Times<br>Time<br>Guardian<br>USA Today<br>Vanity Fair<br>NPR<br>The Atlantic<br>Electric Lit<br>Vox<br>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br>'Smart, dazzling, different . . . This book is thrilling.'<br><b>Ann Patchett, author of <i>Tom Lake</i></b><br><br>'Playful, soulful, kaleidoscopic, honest and profoundly moving'<br><b>Elif Shafak, author of <i>The Island of Missing Trees</i></b><br><br>'What Akbar pulls off in <i>Martyr!</i> is nothing short of miraculous'<br><i><b>The New York Times</b></i><br><br>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?<br><br><b>Electrifying, funny, and all-consuming, Kaveh Akbar's <i>Martyr! </i>is a masterpiece.</b><br><br><i>* Martyr! </i>was an instant <i>New York Times </i>bestseller w/c 27/1/24<br></p>