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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 StarsAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2024A BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE FINALISTSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD 2024NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, AMAZON, TIME AND SARAH JESSICA PARKERON 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, author of Wandering Stars'A kaleidoscopic debut'GuardianCyrus 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
CONTRIBUTORS: Martyr!
EAN: 9781035026081
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES: 352
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HEIGHT: 197 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-02-06
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GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Coming of Age, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
WIDTH: 130 cm
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Tehran, New York City, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict
I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life., Smart, dazzling, different... a novel of depth and complexity, tragedy and humour . . . This book is thrilling. There's no other word for it. It's like watching the novel itself be reinvented, Kaveh Akbar is a radiant soul, a poet so agile and largehearted it comes as no surprise that his first leap into fiction is elegant, dizzying, playful. , In Cyrus, Akbar has created an indelible protagonist, haunted, searching, utterly magnetic. But it speaks to Akbar’s storytelling gifts that Martyr! is both a riveting character study and piercing family saga . . . what Akbar pulls off in Martyr! is nothing short of miraculous., Kaveh Akbar renders the full spectrum of life, and death, with great beauty and care
Kaveh Akbar has been awarded multiple Pushcart Prizes for his poetry, and his collection Pilgrim Bell was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been featured in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week and Front Row, on The New Yorker Radio Hour, and in The Kindergarten Teacher starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. His debut novel, Martyr!, was a New York Times bestseller and a most anticipated book in 2024 for TIME, NYLON, Oprah Daily and Marie Claire. Born in Tehran, he lives in Iowa.
