Ulgezer, Alice Melike. <br/><br/>
The Memory of Salt 

 - Sydney :  Giramondo,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource (304 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The Memory of Salt; Acknowledgements. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781920882983 9781920882969 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Australian.<br/>Fathers and sons--Fiction.<br/>Turks--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR9619  / .M466 2012