Martyr!

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar follows Cyrus as he navigates the shards of his life and the grief of losing his mother after her plane is senselessly shot down over the Persian Gulf.

What We Say: “Gripping and heartfelt, Akbar's starkly honest portrayal of self-destruction and grief is poignant and enthralling. Martyr! is a deeply human novel, a character study and an examination of the power of loss” - Jamie Styles 

What They Say: “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

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Jamie Styles is Editorial Assistant at Service95