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Martyr!Kaveh Akbar

Martyr!

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Cyrus Shams is lost. Ever since his mother’s plane was senselessly shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby, Cyrus has been grappling with her death. Now, newly sober, he is set to learn the truth of her life. When an encounter with a dying artist leads Cyrus towards the mysteries of his past - an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as an Angel of Death, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter – he finds himself once again caught up in the story of his mother, who may not have been who or what she seemed. As Cyrus searches for meaning in the scattered clues…

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Editions

8 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2025
    Picador · 352 pages · 9781035026081
  • Other · English · 2024
    Pan Macmillan · 9781035026067
  • Other · English · 2024
    Diversified Publishing · 9780593862759
  • Other · English · 2024
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780593685778
  • Other · English · 2024
    Pan Macmillan · 9781035026074
  • Other · English · 2024
    Martyr!: a Novel
    Knopf · 9780593537619
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