Martyr!

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 reinventedAnn 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 heartElif 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