The memory of salt [electronic resource] / Alice Melike Ulgezer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ulgezer, Alice Melike.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Artarmon, N.S.W. : Giramondo Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

The Memory of Salt; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-920882-98-7

OCLC:

823234556