Martyr!
Akbar, Kaveh
Martyr! / Kaveh Akbar - London : Picador, 2025 - 331 pages ; 20cm.
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?
9781035026081
Iranian Americans--Fiction
Fiction of Black and Asian Interest.
Martyr! / Kaveh Akbar - London : Picador, 2025 - 331 pages ; 20cm.
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?
9781035026081
Iranian Americans--Fiction
Fiction of Black and Asian Interest.
