Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Five of this summer’s best fiction reads

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par Sally O'Reilly, Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
Alice Kelly, Assistant Professor of Literature and History, University of Warwick
Emily Zobel Marshall, Reader in Postcolonial Literature, Leeds Beckett University
Jane McBride, PhD in, University of Galway
Scarlett Baron, Associate Professor in Department of English, UCL

Looking for a great read to take on holiday with you? We had our experts review some of the hottest books of 2024. From love stories to tales of murders and food, there’s something for every fiction lover.

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

How do we make meaning out of death, especially when it is violent and senseless? This question preoccupies Cyrus Shams, the protagonist of Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, Martyr!.

Cyrus is trying to make sense of the death of his mother, Roya, in an aeroplane shot down by US military forces over the Persian Gulf. In the…

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