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"She has a particular genius for depicting backstreet Istanbul, where the myriad cultures of the Ottoman Empire are still in tangled evidence on every family tree."-
The New York Times Book Review
Set within a once-stately apartment block in Istanbul,
The Flea Palace tells the story of Bonbon Palace, built by Russian noble émigré Pavel Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign. It is now sadly dilapidated, flea-infested, and home to ten very different individuals and their families. Elif Shafak gives us a bird's-eye insight into each apartment, and we see their comic and tragic lives unfold.
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deeply intelligent and amusing, highly recommandable .......2007-04-02
Sharp and deep intelligence is the first thing I appreciated in this book (the first I read by E. S.).
Many characters bound to each other only by the common belonging to this dilapidated palace where they happen to live in: each of them observed with sharp intelligence and humor but yet with compassionate sense of human suffering. And this "horizontal" variety of Istanbulities is crossed by the "vertical" genealogy of the house with its memory of loss and its struggle to recollect the fragments of the past: fragments now perished in garbage and guarded only by the most unnoticeable personage. The hommage to individual destinies who's memory gets lost is since the beginning said in the story of the empty sepulchre of the saint and the erased cemetry.
A Fascinating Book.......2006-08-01
Shafak makes the inhabitants of Bonbon Palace, a rundown apartment building in present-day Istanbul, thoroughly entrancing. It takes a talented writer to get me interested in the daily lives and anxieties of a pair of twin male Turkish hairstylists, for example, and Shafak incredibly did just that.
Mind you, this isn't a summer-at-the-beach page-turner or the kind of mental chewing gum that most people read. The Flea Palace is an insightful, deep novel that is very accessible, yet doubtlessly full of thicker meaning for those familiar with Istanbul. This novel is undoubtedly about Istanbul-the city itself is a major character-but it masterfully transcends the purely local.
Shafak chose an interesting structure for The Flea Palace, beginning with a somewhat abstract narrative introduction about deception and truth. She then sets the premise of the novel's main action: garbage is piling up in the garden of the Bonbon Palace, and relentless hordes of bugs and a sour garbage smell are bedeviling its residents. This short introduction, though, is quickly left behind, as the narrative then turns to the prehistory of the current-day Bonbon Palace, beginning with the displacement of a cemetery and two vanished saints' graves for a construction project, and continuing with the story of its builder, a Russian émigré.
From there, the novel returns to the present day, and quickly immerses the reader in the lives of the inhabitants of Bonbon Palace's ten apartments; the rest of the novel essentially unfolds across ten different stories, each revolving around the inhabitant(s) of the apartments, though as the book goes on they begin to run together.
This is a great book on many levels, bringing characters to life and creating a powerful sense of place. It takes a great writer to spark the reader's interest in the lives of the denizens of an unexceptional apartment building in a distant city, but Shafak does just that.
Review of The Flea Palace.......2005-12-02
Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace struck me as an appropriate reflection of the city it describes. Like Istanbul itself, the book is sewn together from various bits of history, assorted personas (some more memorable than others), and held together by remnants of the lives, of the agendas that people follow, mostly irregardless of one-another. Furthermore, the book, like the city, is generously imbued with both luxury and filth, fact and lies, modernity and tradition: a contradiction, and yet more mystical than unbelievable.
Perhaps the richest and most appreciable aspect of the novel is the depth of the characters, often introduced and explored concisely but extremely vividly. Each character embodies thoughts and fears of the kind amplified in rumors, each rests on the edge of the unbelievable, but is sufficiently grounded in honesty to demand the attention and affection of the reader. I particularly enjoyed the story of the two twin hairdressers, whose actions, more often than not, echoed one-another and whose personalities, though very different, seemed to be two parts of a single whole. Other characters include a full cross-section of Istanbul's population, diverse in age, background, and faith. Though utterly lacking a unified history, the characters of this novel are still tied to one-another by their connections to their residence of faded elegance.
The internal "narrator", who tells some parts of the story in a reflective and analytical first person, is an active character himself, directly connected to the action of the story. Despite his initial lack of interest in the majority of his neighbors, he non-the-less manages to report to the reader an amazing number of intimate details of their lives. The portions of the novel written in third person have the tone of a sort of "omniscient gossip". The setting is personified, as well. She is a once-graceful apartment building, created in the folly of a successful but regretful older man of Russian origin. Her constant accumulation of garbage, without and within, mirrors the obsessions and the anxieties of her inhabitants.
The novel itself reflects the collecting, central to the story. The author (or perhaps internal author-narrator) collects words and phrases, routinely including apparently un-edited lists of objects and details, all included regardless of their relative importance, perhaps impressive in their thoroughness alone.
The narrative style is unorthodox, jumpy, and unpredictable. Often chapters seem to be stories unto themselves, woven into the main current of the novel only by names. The majority of the storylines are never finished in a classical sense. Like friends who move away whose troubles are frozen in our minds at the moment we knew them, many of the characters are seemingly abandoned at the end of the book, their stories unresolved.
In some ways, the final chapters, which expose a narrator-author framing the story, excuse the unfinished and mildly out-landish nature of the end of the novel. All the same, I disliked this added layer of complexity to the story. The appreciation of a novel requires a suspension of disbelief. Further, the use of an internal narrator within a novel presents another layer of distance between the reader and the story. To read a book written by someone who employs an internal narrator in order to bring together gossip-y episodes of the lives of many people, this must be my limit. Reading such a novel that also interjects a further layer between the narrator and the author struck me as too much distance between the reader and the story. Once the story is unveiled to be impression of a narrator as formulated in the imaginings of the mind of an individual created by the author, the characters loose some of their vibrancy that once made them so intriguing. Though the inclusion of the final chapter allowed the introduction of new personas and a touch of additional commentary, this frame detracts from the honesty of the imagery of the majority of the story.
I found the first part of the story, the exploration of the building and its origins, haunting and fascinating. The middle segments, where most of the action takes place, are interesting, if seemingly unconnected. The third part of the novel, however, seemed to discredit the honesty of the earlier tales by over-enthusiastically embracing the "surprise ending" that has become all-too-cliché in modern media. Overall, the book was quite good, definitely recommendable and possibly worth a second visit. Despite the aforementioned disappointments, my overall impression was positive. The plot lines of The Flea Palace were adequately interesting and the characterizations and descriptions truly enchanting.
Couldn't put it down.......2005-07-22
I have not enjoyed a novel this much in years. It was not the mystery of the novel but the beauty of the writing and the finely drawn, fascinating characters and atmosphere that kept me hooked. I was so sad to see it end!
If I could, I would take off a half a point for some errors in usage that the editors should have picked up ("raised" for "razed"), which distracted me from time to time.
A palace of mirrors.......2005-06-22
What happens if a once-stately and now dilapidated palace in one of Istanbul neighborhoods is encircled by garbage, pervaded by its stench, invaded by fleas, the families unable to get rid of it?
What if one of the residents starts collecting garbage?
The flea Place is a strange novel.
Unlike other books it has not a true plan and shows a very peculiar narrative structure.
Depending on the perspective, it can be the story of a once stately - now dilapidated and flea infested - palace built by a Russian émigré for his wife.
Or it can be the story of the mystery of the apartments' stolen garbage, a story full of sarcasm that ends in tragedy.
Or it can be the portrait of modern Turkish society in the many characters presented: the university professor, the hairdresser twins, the elderly Madam Auntie, the religious Mr. Hadji Hadji, the naïve Blue Mistress, the young student ... and so on.
It has been said that the writer uses the narrative structure of A thousand and One Nights. I'm not convinced... : the structure used is mainly focused on the palace and the writer shows us each flat, in a rather haphazard - at the beginning at least - way. Each flat has a kind of personal identity and the sum of the many identities creates a living painting of modern Turkish society.
As it can be read under different perspective, so also appraisal of the story can be - and is - different.
It can be a kind of expressionist social portrait: under this angle there is sometimes a flamboyant irony in a kind of almost Almodovar-ian style (specially in the description of the twins hairdressers, madam Auntie and Hygiene Tijen). In this rabelaisian portrait the garbage comes to be visually the past: the annoying smell, the fleas and cockroaches but also the new flats (present) built on the site of ancient cemeteries (past), the unending creative-destruction that takes nowhere.
It can be a nostalgic picture of Istanbul: the many communities at the beginning of the century (the white Russians, the Armenians, the Greek and the Jews), the traditional Turkish culture endangered by modernity and a longing for a lost equilibrium. This picture has an almost mythological dimension, that recalls - yes - A thousand and one Nights, but also Ohran Pamuk (to remain in Turkey) and the Maquez of A Hundred Years of Solitude.
There's a tendency to idealize, to escape the grey mark of reality and to erase the mark of time and everyday misery .
It can be also a series of - sometimes unconnected - people, each one in his peculiar identity... but this viewpoint is definitely reductive and not the most interesting.
I enjoyed the book and I believe it can be worthwhile to recommend to readers interested in good literature.
It is very interesting and instructive
None the less, sometimes it lacks balance.
The best part is undoubtedly the first, the one in which the story of the palace is presented.
The central part is sometimes a bit too prolix, especially in Flat number 7 where there's almost no action but a quasi-philosophical assessment of the situation.
The last part is more agile, more properly the story of Madam Auntie madness and also the chapters become shorter but often the irony is cheap and sometimes a bit too underlined to be really pleasant.
You are truly welcome if you can suggest other readings or just share ideas and comments!
Thanks for reading.
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Flea Palace
Elif Shafek
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Flea Pits and Picture Palaces / Cytiau Chwain a Phalasau B Reuddwydion
Beth Thomas
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Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. Wilson, who sat on the all-powerful House Appropriations Committee, managed to procure hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen. The arms were secretly procured and distributed with the help of an out-of-favor CIA operative, Gust Avrokotos, whose working-class Greek-American background made him an anomaly among the Ivy League world of American spies. Avrakotos handpicked a staff of CIA outcasts to run his operation and, with their help, continually stretched the Agency's rules to the breaking point. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers' conventions, to the Khyber Pass, this book presents an astonishing chapter of our recent past, and the key to understanding what helped trigger the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and ultimately led to the emergence of a brand-new foe in the form of radical Islam.
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Hopefully, the movie doesn't screw up this story.......2007-10-05
There will be three main kinds of people who won't read this book. The first are those who see no reason for military intervention anywhere, ever. The second are those who are hypersensitive to any speaking of ethnicity, race, gender, etc., within a kilometer of earshot. The third are those who don't like long books, and "Charlie Wilson's War" is certainly longer than most. All this would be too bad, because the book is a wealth of little known and critical current history, as well as a real rip-snorting adventure. The most intriguing icing on the cake is that Charlie Wilson, one of the boldest and effective national-interest congressmen of the last century, was a Democrat. He was a Democrat who pushed Republicans forward for a decade, mostly to do the right things. How many right things, of course, remains to be seen in coming decades.
Much of the book is written in colloquial style, as the author reproduces many discussions among a very wide variety of people. This sometimes comes out sounding a little coarse, but the reader should see this quickly as a writer trying to be accurate. Charlie Wilson, the man himself, also might turn many readers off. He abused his body with food and drink, mostly drink; he was a maverick to the point of almost being a loose canon; wild, he certainly was. No one, though, can deny that he was one of those rarest of politicians. Here was a man who did not stop with saying what he wanted to do, he found ways to do what needed to be done. Then he kept at it, and at it. Here was a man of his word.
This interesting story suffers only a small weakness as a narrative, and only if the reader minds. The action chapter by chapter, even section by section, does not always tell us what was happening at the same time with other people, and at other places. Rather, the author likes to keep a thread of a theme or thought and follow it to the end. This can be irritating and a little confusing if you are trying to keep things straight for any particular group of years at a time. If this does not make a problem for reader, then so much the better. A last suggestion: this book goes down especially well by audio CD, and the voice narrator does well with dialogs and accents.
A great true story.......2007-10-04
This is a truly amazing tale. Never told until now and soon a movie. Buy this book and read the true story about how a "wild" congressman and a rogue CIA agent changed history. Better by far than all those fictional adventures!
four and 1/2 stars........2007-10-01
steve coll's excellent book "ghost wars" whet my reading appetite for more on the soviet war in afghanistan. since that military action, with the unanticipated consequences it spawned for the united states, was such a catalyst for the 9/11 attacks, it seems essential for an american to get a grip on what took place there. "charlie wilson's war" is a thrilling account of that international drama. though much of the book deals with funding america's covert involvement through congressional appropriation subcommittees, and with CIA office politics, the narrative is interesting page for page throughout this long work. not once did i find it a chore to continue, or feel an urge to skip past anything. george crile brings the colorful personalities of those involved to vivid life through his clear prose. he actually makes appropriation subcommitees, and their methods of work, interesting. and his portraits of afghanistan and pakistan, and their respective political environments and key political players, is brilliantly executed. the story is told completely from the american perspective, true. you will have to seek elsewhere for a more balanced view (by this i mean one that takes into account the soviet soldiers side of things). but this book being what it is, is a fascinating read, and one you can learn much from.
Great.......2007-09-08
One of the most intriguing stories of American foreign policy making. This book was recommended to me by a staffer for a military oriented Congressional committee. He was quite emphatic in stressing that this book, better than any other, offers a great perspective on the influence Congress can have on foreign and war policy. I don't know how representative it is of the day to day activities of members of Congress, but it certainly shows how a dedicated member of Congress CAN get seriously involved in an issue.
Charlie Wilson is one of the most interesting politicians to have walked on the stage in the past 50 years. Part JFK, Nixon, LBJ, and Clinton - both good and bad parts - Wilson was a smart and dedicated defender of CIA efforts to support the mujaheden in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. More than any supposed hardline conservative, including President Reagan, Wilson, a socially liberal Democrat from Texas, was the most agressive elected official to back the CIA in its anti-Soviet effort in Afghanistan. Wilson was also wildly able to get in the worst kinds of trouble: womanizing, drunk driving, and questionable uses of public money. I guess it goes to show that people are incredibly complex and contain a much more dynamic mix of good and bad within them. Kind of like the Incredible Hulk, but with less green.
Hard to read.......2007-08-29
Content was OK, I'm sure acurate, but about 210 pages into this 500+ page book I had to give in - I just couldn't make myself want to read it. I am only 31, so I do not know of Charlie Wilson, or the political temperature in the 80s, but this book was recommended to me so I tried, but couldn't make myself do it.
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Great book!.......2004-12-07
The back of the book reads....
"The Man: Lang Patton, former secret agent, scarred - body and soul.
His Mission: Adjust to everyday life and avoid romance at all cost.
The Obstacle in His Way: Ex-fiancee Kirry Campbell, currently being stalked by one very angry admirer.
Lang Patton had battled his conscience for years after breaking his engagement to pretty Kirry Campbell. She had wanted promises he couldn't make, needed him in ways he couldn't fufill. Now Kirry was back in his life, whether he wanted her there or not. She desperately needed his skills to protect her from a violent pursuer. And this time, Lang vowed not to let her down - or let her go!"
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- How does a nanny handle a plane hijacking?
- The laughter begins immediately
- Funny Stuff
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Charlie Ford Meets Secret Agent Man
J.D. Tynan
Manufacturer: A Better Be Write Publisher
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Charlie Ford Meets Secret Agent Man What's the worst that could happen? Charlie gets a job, working for Hollywood's top action hero, caring for his blatantly pretentious twelve year old daughter, Annabelle. A summer to be spent in Africa with dirt, a spoiled brat and bugs the size of her fist. Who knew that airplanes do get high-jacked and that Charlie tends to scream like a girl and pass out -- A lot! Come along for a wild adventure in which Charlie meets Secret Agent man. There's wildlife, bad dudes with guns and a hunky super spy to add to the excitement. It's unlike any summer vacation you've ever had. Chick-Lit Mystery/ Action- Comedy
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How does a nanny handle a plane hijacking?.......2007-06-15
Charlie Ford is a nanny. After she is fired from one job, she gets a job caring for Annabelle, the twelve-year-old daughter of one of Hollywood's top action heroes.
She soon finds out her summer will be spent in Africa taking care of Annabelle. Charlie is not excited about the prospects of her summer with a spoiled brat, let along huge bugs and lots of dirt.
On their way, their plane is high jacked. Charlie discovers she not only screams like a girl, but she also passes out a lot.
The Secret Agent man appears to help them, and soon her life is turned upside down in the jungle with many villains. Doesn't hurt that the Secret Agent man is a very handsome spy.
This book was fabulous! Lots of action to keep me turning pages. Was really hard to put down. Charlie is such an amazing character. She was very different than I anticipated. Her interactions with Annabelle and the Secret Agent man were great! The Africa jungle was a great backdrop as well.
I highly, highly recommend this book! Hope there will be more books with Charlie and the Secret Agent man.
The laughter begins immediately.......2007-04-26
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (4/07)
Thanks to author J.D. Tynan, I was actually able to enjoy a flight across the United States because I had this book in my hands. By the way, this flight was full of traveling junior high school kids... and I don't like kids.
Anyway, from the first page Tynan had me hooked. It is important to note that Charlie Ford is a woman. She is a pretty tough woman. The story begins with Charlie being fired from another nanny position. She seems to have a problem with spoiled rich kids getting the best of her. Unwilling to give up she takes another nanny position for a twelve-year-old girl who is the daughter of a movie star dad. The daughter initially seems like every other spoiled brat, but Charlie senses that she has some protective barriers up and starts to see past the facade. She and Charlie end up going to Africa to be with her dad while he completes filming a movie. Along the way, their plane is hijacked. Charlie and Annabelle manage to escape into the jungle with the help of a mysterious man.
Charlie spent eight years in an elite military unit. She learns that she must use her survival skills, military training, and her excellent physical condition to survive. In dealing with Annabelle she also comes to terms with relationships that she has with her family members. This ordeal brings out the worst of her issues. But it is these issues that help her relate so well to Annabelle. She has to deal with not feeling like she is good enough and how to relate to her family, especially her father.
The girls are not sure if they can trust this man or not. He aids them, but he also leaves them to fend for themselves. At one point on their adventure, Charlie ends up helping him out. For now he is nameless, because he keeps giving her different names. Charlie also finds herself attracted to him. This adds to the suspense.
I really loved, "Charlie Ford Meets Secret Agent Man," because of all of the aspects incorporated into the story. It has everything, adventure, romance, suspense and a great deal of laugh-out-loud humor. That might be why the kids left me alone on the plane.
Anyway, "Charlie Ford Meets Secret Agent Man" tops the list of great books that I have read. I cannot recommend this book enough. It would be a perfect selection for a woman's readers group.
Funny Stuff.......2007-04-20
I didn't give this one 5 stars because it was told in the first person, by a woman, and I'm a MAN. But I did give it 4 stars because it was funny, entertaining and had a great plot. The author did it again with this one! Charlie Ford is going to be a smash hit with lovers of adventure and international espionage, as well as a hit with older teens who love a good, action-packed thrill ride. A must read!
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I'm impressed.......2005-10-13
Dutch is Special Ops and has been invited back into the life of the woman that was responsible for the torture and death of his younger brother. She wants to make a deal....she'll give him the means to distroy her father, an international criminal, if he will keep her alive.
Right from the beginning Dutch is torn. He wants to kill Julia and if he finds out that her sister is being held hostage by her father then he will have the means for classic eye-for-an-eye revenge. But his nature is that of protector. And she brings out his nature despite his suspicions of her motives and her secret.
He spends the book vacillating between his desire for revenge and his need to see her murderous father brought to justice. The climax is an exciting scene between Julia and her father, when he puts the deal to her bluntly. Her sister's life for Dutch's. Considering that she went into this nightmare knowing that she would die, and has been moving forward only to save to her sister's life.....
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- An Excellent Examination of a Nazi Opportunist
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Mystery Man: William Rhodes Davis, Nazi Agent of Influence
Dale Harrington
Manufacturer: Brassey's Inc
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William Rhodes Davis was Adolf Hitler's main agent of influence in the United States. Among Davis's many nefarious deeds was his acquisition of much of the oil Hitler needed to start World War II and the delivery of five million dollars to the Republican Party for the presidential campaign of 1940. Davis was a superb manipulator who could beguile the Nazis while simultaneously receiving the assistance of labor leader John L. Lewis and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thought to be the model for the American Nazi in the motion picture Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Davis was an enigmatic, larger-than-life villain whose story is told here for the first time.
This revealing book tells how powerful American, British and Mexican business and political leaders helped a talented and complex man serve Hitler while he made and lost and made again millions of dollars. It also looks into the Establishment's attempts to cover up the part that prominent American leaders played in Davis's activities and maybe his mysterious death. Mystery Man is a fascinating story of espionage, political intrigue, and corporate skullduggery that will add an exciting new element to our understanding of the war years.
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An Excellent Examination of a Nazi Opportunist.......2000-06-27
America has always been cursed with opportunists willing to do business with dictators. The current crop of people willing to profit from China - from President Clinton's apparent cash payments from the Chinese secret police to Republican businessmens' use of near slave labor to boost their profits - have their antecedents in William Rhodes Davis, who made a fortune supplying Hitler with the oil to launch World War II. There were many mysterious things about Davis - his relationship to FDR, his role as a Nazi agent, even his death. Mr. Harrington doesn't, can't give us the answers to everything, but he does a brilliant job laying out the facts that are known. The author is both an investment banker and a sensible man. Both are necessary skills to bring to a book like this. As an investment banker, he is anexcellent guide through the thickets of financial manueverings. As a sensible man, he weighs the information carefully and allows the reader to draw his own conclusions. I have only one quibble: he mentions that Sir Harry Oakes became associated with Davis shortly before Davis' strange death. Oakes himself of course figured in a strange murder case in the Bahamas shortly thereafter. I would have liked the author to see if there was any connection between the cases. That is the minorest of quibbles, however, and readers of this book will be able to reflect on just how many facets history has.
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Mystery Men.......2002-12-23
This book was really great! I loved the way the chemistry was with the characters. This book made me feel all warm and tingly inside. I was a little sad when I finished the stories. I did not want them to end.
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not to good.......2001-06-22
this book is not very good and some of the stories in it are just the most boring stories i have ever read.
not to good.......2001-06-22
this book is not very good and some of the stories in it are just the most boring stories i have ever read.
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The Man Called X was an espionage radio drama which aired on CBS and NBC from July 10, 1944 to May 20, 1952. Herbert Marshall had the lead role of agent Ken Thurston who took on dangerous cases in a variety of exotic locations. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra supplied the background music.
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