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Martyr!
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘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
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize for Fiction 2024, 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...
Details
352 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
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 reinventedAnn Patchett, author of Tom Lake
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. Lauren Groff, author of The Matrix
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.The New York Times