<p><b>Discover the life-affirming debut novel from acclaimed poet Kaveh Akbar: a love letter to the world and our search for meaning - in faith, art, ourselves and those we care for.</b><br> <br> <b>'Dazzling'</b> Ann Patchett<br> <b>'Profoundly moving'</b> Elif Shafak<br> <b>'Gorgeous'</b> Tommy Orange<br> <b>'Radiant'</b> Lauren Groff<br> <b>'Stunning'</b> John Green<br> <b>'Miraculous'</b> <i>The New York Times</i><br> <b>'Sensational'</b> <i>Daily Mail</i><br> <b>'Kaleidoscopic'</b> <i>The Guardian</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> Electrifying, funny, and all-consuming, Kaveh Akbar's <i>Martyr!</i> is a masterpiece.<br> <br> <b>A Book of the Year in <i>The Observer</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>TIME</i>, <i>Vanity Fair</i>, <i>The Atlantic</i> and <i>The New Yorker,</i> and shorlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize for Fiction</b></p>