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The Memory of Salt

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sydney : Giramondo, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781920882983
  • 9781920882969
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR9619 .M466 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Subject: Ali?s father is a Turkish circus musician performing in Kabul when Ali?s mother, a young pediatrician from Melbourne, meets him in a bar. He plays the trumpet, the saz, the flute, hears voices that urge him to violence, sees angels in the skies and djinns in the street, inscribes prayers and invocations on the walls of his room, and across the suburb. Ülgezer offers a remarkable portrait of this crazed visionary, a madman and a mystic, intoxicated with hashish and Sufism, who wrecks the family, but is also an enchanted being. Ali?s mother has grown up on Australia?s outback frontiers? their c.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PR9619.4.44 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn818818992
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PR9619.4.66 The orphan gunnerSara Knox. PR9619.4.37 The garden bookBrian Castro. PR9619.3.73 Original Face PR9619.4.44 The Memory of Salt PR9619.4.83 Burning in /Mireille Juchau. PR9619.3.76 A History of Books. PR9619.3.3922 Street to streetBrian Castro.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Memory of Salt; Acknowledgements.

Ali?s father is a Turkish circus musician performing in Kabul when Ali?s mother, a young pediatrician from Melbourne, meets him in a bar. He plays the trumpet, the saz, the flute, hears voices that urge him to violence, sees angels in the skies and djinns in the street, inscribes prayers and invocations on the walls of his room, and across the suburb. Ülgezer offers a remarkable portrait of this crazed visionary, a madman and a mystic, intoxicated with hashish and Sufism, who wrecks the family, but is also an enchanted being. Ali?s mother has grown up on Australia?s outback frontiers? their c.

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