Mártir / Martyr!

Ganador del Dayton Literary Peace Prize de Ficción 2025 Uno de los 100 libros más notables del 2024 según el New York Times Uno de los 10 mejores libros de 2024 del New York Times Book Review Finalista del Premio Nacional del Libro Uno de los 10 mejores libros de ficción del 2024 de Time Magazine Kaveh Akbar ha escrito la nueva gran novela americana: finalista del National Book Award y una de las diez mejores novelas del año según el New York Times. >Lazos familiares y casualidades del destino unen todas estas vidas con la de Cyrus, un joven obsesionado hasta lo ridículo con la muerte, los mártires y el sentido de la vida. Puede que la eternidad que busca Cyrus no exista: lo que realmente importa dura en realidad tan solo un instante. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Dayton Literary Peace Prize on Fiction 2025 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024 One The 10 Best Books of 2024 of The New York Times Book Review A National Book Award Finalist Time's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2024 Kaveh Akbar has written the great American novel, a finalist for the National Book Award and one of the year's ten best novels, according to The New York Times. A woman dies on a flight shot down by the US military. In New York, an artist turns the final days of his life into a work of art. An Iranian fighter dressed as the Angel of Death rides on horseback among dying soldiers. A widower toils on an Indiana chicken farm to pay for his son's college. A young woman dresses as a man to smoke on the streets of Teheran. Family ties and twists of fate link these lives to that of Cyrus, a young man obsessed to the point of absurdity with death, martyrs and the meaning of life. But it could be that the eternity Cyrus is searching for doesn't exist and instead, what's truly important lasts only instant.