Martyr! / Kaveh Akbar

By:

Akbar, Kaveh [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Picador, 2025Description: 331 pages ; 20cmISBN:

9781035026081

Subject(s):

Iranian Americans -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Fiction of Black and Asian Interest.

Summary: 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?

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Book	TBS Barcelona	P-EN AKB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		B05855

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?