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Autore: | Ulgezer Alice Melike |
Titolo: | The memory of salt [[electronic resource] /] / Alice Melike Ulgezer |
Pubblicazione: | Artarmon, N.S.W., : Giramondo Pub., 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823.4 |
Soggetto topico: | Australian fiction |
Fiction | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Australian |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | The Memory of Salt; Acknowledgements |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The memory of salt |
ISBN: | 1-920882-98-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809147403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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