{"product_id":"the-memory-of-salt-by-alice-melike-ulgezer-9781920882907","title":"The Memory of Salt","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAli's father is a Turkish circus musician performing in Kabul when Ali's mother, a young paediatrician 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUlgezer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel is Ali's coming to terms with this meeting of two cultures that are at once so similar and so separate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46717664264428,"sku":"9781920882907","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25325983482871.jpg?v=1754470035","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-memory-of-salt-by-alice-melike-ulgezer-9781920882907","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}