Martyr!

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize for Fiction 2024, named a best book of 2024 by The New York Times, Amazon, CBS and TIME and on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2024

'This book vibrates with love of life, beauty and language. I'm in awe'
Natalie Portman

'Smart, dazzling, different . . . This book is thrilling.'
Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake

'I haven't stopped thinking about it. Sensational.'
Daily Mail

'Nothing short of miraculous'
Junot Diaz, New York Times

'A kaleidoscopic debut'
Guardian

'A literary gem . . . Martyr! invites you to read with a highlighter in hand'
Observer

'Elegant, dizzying, playful.'
Lauren Groff, author of Matrix

'Martyr! is an astounding debut'
The Irish Times

'Brilliant'
LA TIimes

Reading Martyr! Is a delight
The Washington Post

Cyrus Shams has always been lost. Hes 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, hes headed for an encounter that will transform everything he thought he knew. Can a final revelation change the truth of Cyrus's life?

_{* Martyr! was an instant New York Times bestseller w/c 27/1/24}