TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ulgezer,Alice Melike
TI  - The Memory of Salt
SN  - 9781920882983
AV  - PR9619 .M466 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Giramondo
KW  - Australian
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Turks
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The Memory of Salt; Acknowledgements; 2; b
N2  - 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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