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Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize for Fiction 2024, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award, named a best book of 2024 by The New York Times, Amazon, CBS, TIME and Sarah Jessica Parker, and on 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'
Guardian
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?
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
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