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Martyr!

Yazan: Kaveh Akbar
Seslendiren: Arian Moayed
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Discover the life-affirming debut novel from acclaimed poet Kaveh Akbar: a love letter to the world and our search for meaning - in faith, art, ourselves and those we care for.

'Dazzling' Ann Patchett
‘Profoundly moving' Elif Shafak
‘Gorgeous’ Tommy Orange
‘Radiant’ Lauren Groff
‘Stunning’ John Green
‘Miraculous' The New York Times
‘Sensational’ Daily Mail
‘Kaleidoscopic’ The Guardian

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?

Electrifying, funny, and all-consuming, Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! is a masterpiece.

A Book of the Year in The Observer, The New York Times, TIME, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and shorlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize for Fiction

 2024\u2019ün en iyileri City Life Family Life Friendship Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Ruh Sağlığı Farkındalığı Urban World Literature İslam Mirası Samimi Komik
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I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life. (John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars)
Smart, dazzling, different... a novel of depth and complexity, tragedy and humour . . . This book is thrilling. There's no other word for it. It's like watching the novel itself be reinvented (Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake)
Playful, soulful, kaleidoscopic, honest and profoundly moving. It is also wholly original, and the writing is brilliant, full of chutzpah and heart (Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees)
Kaveh Akbar is a radiant soul, a poet so agile and largehearted it comes as no surprise that his first leap into fiction is elegant, dizzying, playful. (Lauren Groff, author of The Matrix)
In Cyrus, Akbar has created an indelible protagonist, haunted, searching, utterly magnetic. But it speaks to Akbar’s storytelling gifts that Martyr! is both a riveting character study and piercing family saga . . . what Akbar pulls off in Martyr! is nothing short of miraculous.
Kaveh Akbar renders the full spectrum of life, and death, with great beauty and care (Raven Leilani, author of Luster)
An absolute jewel of a novel. A diamond. I haven’t loved a book this much in years. Kaveh’s writing is so thoroughly powerful and gorgeous you can feel it from where dreams come . . . This book does everything. (Tommy Orange, author of There, There)
Martyr! is an astounding debut . . . It feels like holding magic in your hands (Aimee Walsh, The Irish Times)
It's so, so incredible (Kaia Gerber)
I haven't stopped thinking about it. Sensational.
A kaleidoscopic debut . . . a novel that comes at you from every conceivable direction
Martyr! will stay in my soul for good—a fever dream, a reckoning, a heartbreak, a shattering and mending, a delight—its double-helix of dreams and conversation now part of my own DNA (Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams)
A brilliant debut... simultaneously funny and piercing... Akbar writes beautifully
Akbar is a black-belt storyteller, and MARTYR! is a page-turner I couldn’t put down. Buy this book! (Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club)
Akbar’s debut is full of love, fury, humour and wisdom. Protagonist Cyrus Shams . . . is coming straight for your heart
I laughed out loud
I can’t remember the last time a book made me feel like this. Martyr! is simply extraordinary. Kaveh Akbar has written a novel that will stay with me forever. (Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed)
Brilliant
Reading Martyr! is a delight
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10/10 narration
the novel itself is to be admired for it’s technicality and wild imagination but personally found it too confused, and long winding. The twist comes in too late, the addiction part though interesting is disturbing and let’s not even talk about the ending…

Great narration, wild imaginative writing but didn’t really do it for me

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
Why would a chicken farm in indiana advertise for jobs in Iran at the height of bad blood between the countries? And how would this be allowed by the Iranian regime? And even if somehow, improbably, this were to happen, how could this chicken farm secure work visas for unskilled Iranian laborers? I really couldn't get past this ridiculous plot hole, but I persevered only to find an even bigger plot hole at the end.

*spoiler alert*

You mean to tell me a mom discovers her long lost son -- who she deserted -- in the most improbable circumstances during her dying days. And instead of reconnecting with this person and taking advantage of this miricle, she chooses to kill herself -- either in the name of art or for some other personal reason that is never addressed? This decision is not even analysed by the protagonist. It is completely glossed over.

Some of the writing is beautiful, most of it is way overdescribed and wordy. It's one metaphor after another. So in short, I don't see what the hoopla is about. It was OK but not a classic by any means.

Major Plot Holes

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Very compelling and beautiful story. Loved it very much. Huge shout out to the narrator, who masterfully brings the story to life, highly recommend.

Beautiful story and incredible narration

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Ah! So sad but so sweet, some of it hit a little close to the bone (weirdly) but such a great read

Beautiful

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Cyrus is a poet and a writer and he has difficulty understanding the reason behind his existence on Earth. Born in Iran, he loses his mother in an air crash aboard a plane enroute to Dubai, Cyrus’ father immigrates to Indiana, USA to bring up his son and give him a better life than that of living in post-revolution Iran. Years later as Cyrus searches for material to write his book, battle his demons against addiction, cement his relationship with his friend and lover and deal with the loss of his dad, a chance encounter with an Iranian artist who is dying of cancer in NewYork, changes everything that Cyrus thinks he believes in. I cannot stress out enough the beauty of the writing, the small, but outstanding references to Iranian poets, religion (or lack thereof) and ancient tales of this story. An absolute standout! X

Fantastic self-reflecting debut novel

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