Martyr! Anton Hur a novel that shows how

a novel that shows how the courage to tell the truth can bring healing

Their friends and the realm itself are in jeopardy

each scarred—physically or emotionally—by the trauma of conflict

El Akkad has spent the past two decades reporting on the War on Terror

in the dark

Martyr! Anton Hur a novel that shows howKaveh Akbars Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaningin faith, art, ourselves, othersin which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mothers plane was shot down over the skies