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'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 courtship takes them from Afghanistan across Iran to Turkey and then to London where Ali is born. The novel is Ali's coming to terms with this meeting of two cultures that are at once so similar and so separate.' (Trove record)
Notes
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Epigraph : The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along. rumi
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Dedication : For my Mother and Father
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also large print.
Works about this Work
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Narrative Parkour
2013-
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2013;
— Review of The Memory of Salt 2012 single work novel -
Taking Turkish Delight in Cultural Growth
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 1 December 2012; (p. 32)
— Review of The Memory of Salt 2012 single work novel -
Give Baroque Writing a Break
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27 - 28 October 2012; (p. 23) -
Singular Journeys
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 345 2012; (p. 56)
— Review of The Memory of Salt 2012 single work novel -
Love and Madness Collide across Time and Space
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 September 2012; (p. 21)
— Review of The Memory of Salt 2012 single work novel
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Adrift between Cultures
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 August 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of The Memory of Salt 2012 single work novel -
Love and Madness Collide across Time and Space
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 September 2012; (p. 21)
— Review of The Memory of Salt 2012 single work novel -
Singular Journeys
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 345 2012; (p. 56)
— Review of The Memory of Salt 2012 single work novel -
Taking Turkish Delight in Cultural Growth
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 1 December 2012; (p. 32)
— Review of The Memory of Salt 2012 single work novel -
Narrative Parkour
2013-
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2013;
— Review of The Memory of Salt 2012 single work novel -
Give Baroque Writing a Break
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27 - 28 October 2012; (p. 23)
Last amended 13 Feb 2020 11:18:30
Settings:
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cAfghanistan,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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cTurkey,cMiddle East, Asia,
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cIran,cMiddle East, Asia,
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London,
cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
- Melbourne, Victoria,
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