'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 Cyrus Shams is lost. The orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, Cyrus never knew his mother. Killed when her plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident, Cyrus has spent his life grappling with the meaningless nature of his mother’s death. Now he is set to learn the truth of her life. When Cyrus’s obsession with the lives of the martyrs – Bobby Sands, Joan of Arc – leads him to a chance encounter with a dying artist, he finds himself drawn towards the mysteries of his past: an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of Death; and toward his mother, who may not have been who or what she seemed. As Cyrus searches for meaning in the scattered clues of his life, a final revelation transforms everything he thought he knew. Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Kaveh Akbar's debut novel Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction. 'Elegant, dizzying, playful' - Lauren Groff, author of Matrix 'An absolute jewel of a novel ... I haven’t loved a book this much in years' - Tommy Orange, author of There, There
| ISBN: | 9781035026067 |
| Publication date: | 7th March 2024 |
| Author: | Kaveh Akbar |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 331 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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'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 Cyrus Shams is lost. The orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, Cyrus never knew his mother. Killed when her plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident, Cyrus has spent his life grappling with the meaningless nature of his mother’s death. Now he is set to learn the truth of her life. When Cyrus’s obsession with the lives of the martyrs – Bobby Sands, Joan of Arc – leads him to a chance encounter with a dying artist, he finds himself drawn towards the mysteries of his past: an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of Death; and toward his mother, who may not have been who or what she seemed. As Cyrus searches for meaning in the scattered clues of his life, a final revelation transforms everything he thought he knew. Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Kaveh Akbar's debut novel Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction. 'Elegant, dizzying, playful' - Lauren Groff, author of Matrix 'An absolute jewel of a novel ... I haven’t loved a book this much in years' - Tommy Orange, author of There, There
MARTYR! features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Coming of age, General Fiction, Fiction, Religious issues and debates, Religion: general, Religion and beliefs, Philosophy and Religion, Fiction: narrative themes
MARTYR! is available in Paperback, Hardback
MARTYR! was written by Kaveh Akbar and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
MARTYR! has 331 pages
£15.29
