Martyr!

Présentation

Cyrus Shams, a newly sober Iranian-American poet haunted by his parents' deaths, becomes obsessed with the idea of martyrdom — of a death that means something. His search leads him to a museum, where a terminally ill artist is spending her final days as a living exhibit, and to revelations about his own family's past. Kaveh Akbar, an acclaimed poet, makes his fiction debut with Martyr!, one of the most lauded novels of 2024. By turns funny, grieving and electric, it weaves addiction, immigration, faith and art into a story about how to live when you're fixated on dying. Dazzling sentences, huge heart.