00891cam a22001697i 4500001001500000008004100015020001800056040000800074041000800082100002500090245002800115260003100143300002300174520045200197650003100649655004100680Rebiun37592951250224s2025    enk           000 f eng d  a9781035026081  ctbs  aeng  aAkbar, Kaveheauthor10aMartyr! c/ Kaveh Akbar  aLondon : bPicador, c2025  a331 pages ;c20cm.  aCyrus 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? 0aIranian AmericansvFiction 0aFiction of Black and Asian Interest.