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The Atlantic Ocean - Andrew O'hagan - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Atlantic Ocean - Andrew O'hagan - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

A stunning collection of reportage from an acclaimed journalist and novelist hailed by the New York Times as ''the best essayist of his generation''. As he grew up, Andrew O''Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British industry and the rise of Blair and the tabloids. This collection of essays tells the story of that period in our cultural and political life.Through the reported essays that first made O''Hagan''s name, it is a book filled both with personal story and the power of documentary witness. Opening with a major personal piece examining the journey of Britain and America since the closing of the Thatcher years, it concludes with a piece of reportage telling the story of a British and an American soldier who died in Iraq on the same day in 2006. A fascinating, important and timely collection from a hugely important essayist.

DKK 162.00
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Further than the Furthest Thing - Zinnie Harris - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Further than the Furthest Thing - Zinnie Harris - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well as beyond. Further Than The Furthest Thing is a beautifully drawn story evoking the sadness and beauty of a civilisation in crisis. Further Than The Furthest Thing premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in August, 2000.

DKK 130.00
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The Straits - Gregory Burke - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Straits - Gregory Burke - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, 1982. Doink, Jock and Darren have the longest, hottest summer ahead; yomping, watching pirate copies of Rambo and fighting the local lads over a lucrative fleet of octopus that have just hit the Rock. With Darren''s fit older sister Tracy to sell the bounty, their dominance of Rosia Bay seems assured.But for the sons and daughters of the British Forces, another war beginning in the South Atlantic will soon bring a dark heart to their world. The Straits - the tale of an extraordinary summer in the lives of four teenagers - was produced by Paines Plough Theatre Company and premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2003.

DKK 131.00
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Feel Free - Nick Laird - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Feel Free - Nick Laird - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2018Nick Laird has been an assured and brilliant voice in contemporary poetry since his acclaimed debut, To a Fault , in 2005. Feel Free , his fourth collection, effortlessly spans the Atlantic, combining the acoustic expansiveness of Whitman or Ashbery with the lyricism of Laird''s forebears Heaney, MacNeice and Yeats. With characteristic variety, invention and wit (here are elegies, monologues, formal poems and free verse) the poet explores the sundry patterns of freedom and constraint - the family, the impress of history, the body itself - and how we might transcend them. Feel Free is always daring, always renewing, and Laird''s most remarkable work to date.

DKK 136.00
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Acting Up - David Hare - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Acting Up - David Hare - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In 1997 the 50-year-old playwright David Hare decided to visit the 50-year-old state of Israel and write a play - Via Dolorosa - about the conflict. He then chose to become the actor of his own play and set about learning to act the monologue for an uninterrupted 95 minutes on stage. Acting Up is a diary of the ups and downs of that learning curve as well as an insight into what it is actors, directors, producers and stage staff actually do in rehearsals. Hare''s hilarious diary of his experience on both sides of the Atlantic tells of his difficulties in coming to terms with his terrifying change of career, but also grapples with more serious questions about the nature of acting itself.

DKK 166.00
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Outlying Islands - David Greig - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Outlying Islands - David Greig - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, two young Cambridge ornithologists arrive on a remote, uninhabited Scottish island, sent by the government to survey the island''s birds. With them on the island are Kirk, the authoritarian leaseholder, and his niece Ellen, a young woman in love with the stars of silent comedy. Left alone on a scrap of land surrounded by the vast Atlantic, they observe each other.Poetic, intense and gripping, Outlying Islands is a glimpse of an innocence, a way of seeing and a way of being young that is about to be destroyed forever. Outlying Islands was premièred at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in July 2002 and transferred to the Royal Court, London in Autumn 2002.

DKK 140.00
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Robert Lowell - Robert Lowell - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Robert Lowell - Robert Lowell - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.Robert Lowell (1917-77) was born in Boston. Life Studies , published in 1959, was a watershed in American poetry, initiating an autobiographical project that became the dominating feature of his work and shaped poetry on both sides of the Atlantic. He was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including For the Union Dead (1964) and Day by Day (1977). Faber published his Collected Poems in 2003.

DKK 110.00
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Iron Britannia - Anthony Barnett - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Iron Britannia - Anthony Barnett - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

On 2 April 1982 Argentine forces seized the British-dependent Falkland Islands. Within 48 hours a British task force sailed for the South Atlantic. One in five Britons opposed this war; but Argentina''s surrender 74 days later assured Margaret Thatcher''s re-election. Iron Britannia , first published in 1982, peered through ''the fog of war'' to diagnose something rotten in the British state. This 2012 edition offers a new preface by Anthony Barnett, dissecting post-Falklands UK foreign policy. ''Barnett makes a variety of telling points... [especially] the concept he puts forward of ''Churchillism'', the rhetoric of national unity which overrides party and class considerations.'' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Times Literary Supplement ''A furious, sometimes gleeful and often witty polemic against the decaying British political system which the conflict revealed.'' Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books

DKK 148.00
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How to Win an Information War - Peter Pomerantsev - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

How to Win an Information War - Peter Pomerantsev - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

BY THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE'Lively and elegant.' TLS'History at its most urgent.' BEN JUDAH'An essential read.' MAIL ON SUNDAYFrom one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. Summer 1941, Hitler and his allies rule Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. But inside Germany, there is a notable voice of dissent, Der Chef, whose radio broadcasts skilfully question Nazi doctrine. What listeners don't know is that Der Chef is a fiction, a character created by the British propagandist Sefton Delmer. As Peter Pomerantsev uncovers Delmer's fascinating lost story, he is called into a wartime propaganda effort of his own: the global response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

DKK 123.00
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Atlantis - John Cowper Powys - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Atlantis - John Cowper Powys - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Published in 1954, John Cowper Powys called this novel, a ''long romance about Odysseus in his extreme old age, hoisting sail once more from Ithaca''. As usual there is a large cast of human characters but Powys also gives life and speech to inanimates such as a stone pillar, a wooden club,and an olive shoot. The descent to the drowned world of Atlantis towards the end of the novel is memorably described, indeed, Powys himself called it ''the best part of the book''.Many of Powys''s themes, such as the benefits of matriarchy, the wickedness of priests and the evils of modern science which condones vivisection are given full rein in this odd but compelling work.

DKK 210.00
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Limitless - Alan Glynn - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Limitless - Alan Glynn - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

A stunning international thriller and a wild, compulsive ride into the greedy vortex of modern life. Imagine a drug that made your brain function to its full potential. A drug that allowed you pick up a foreign language in a single day. A drug that helped you process information so fast you could see patterns in the stock market.Just as his life is fading into mediocrity, Eddie Spinola comes across such a pill: MDT-48 - a sort of Viagra for the brain. But while its benefits materialise quickly, so do certain unwelcome side-effects. And when Eddie decides to track down other users, he soon discovers that they''re all dying, or already dead...

DKK 117.00
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The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah (author) Hall - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah (author) Hall - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''Glorious.'' Observer ''Wildly imaginative.'' Independent ''Intoxicating.'' Financial Times On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic tattoo-artist Eliot Riley. Thirsty for new experiences, he departs for America and finds himself in the riotous world of the Coney Island boardwalk, where he sets up his own business as ''The Electric Michelangelo''. In this carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak-shows, Cy becomes enamoured with Grace, a mysterious immigrant and circus performer who commissions him to cover her entire body in tattooed eyes.Hugely atmospheric, exotic and familiar, The Electric Michelangelo is a love story and an exquisitely rendered portrait of seaside resorts on opposite sides of the Atlantic by one of the most uniquely talented novelists of her generation.

DKK 115.00
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Venetian Navigators - Andrea Di Robilant - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Venetian Navigators - Andrea Di Robilant - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolò and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. The story of their adventure travelled throughout Europe, from the workshop of the great cartographer Mercator to the court of Elizabeth I. For centuries, the brothers were international celebrities, until, in 1835, the story was denounced as a ''tissue of lies'' and the Zens faded into oblivion.Following in their footsteps Andrea di Robilant sets out to discover the truth about the Zen voyages in a journey that takes him from the crumbling Palazzo Zen in Venice to the Orkney Islands, the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland. Part history, part travelogue, Venetian Navigators is a charming tale of great journeys, fine detective work and faith, against the odds.

DKK 136.00
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The Fearful Void - Geoffrey Moorhouse - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Fearful Void - Geoffrey Moorhouse - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel. No one had ever made such a journey before . . .''In October 1972 Geoffrey Moorhouse began his odyssey across the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Nile, a distance of 3,600 miles. His reason for undertaking such an immense feat was to examine the roots of his fear, to explore an extremity of human experience.From the outset misfortune was never far away; and as he moved further into that ''awful emptiness'' the physical and mental deprivation grew more intense. In March 1973, having walked the last 300 miles, Moorhouse, ill and exhausted, reached Tamanrasset, where he decided to end his journey. The Fearful Void is the moving record of his struggle with fear and loneliness and, ultimately, his coming to terms with the spiritual as well as the physical dangers of the desert.

DKK 175.00
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From Sea to Shining Sea - Gavin Young - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

From Sea to Shining Sea - Gavin Young - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Gavin Young'' s North American odyssey took him from Central Park and the old Atlantic whaling ports all the way to a tiny cabin in the Yukon, where Jack London heard ''the call of the wild''. Whether sleuthing through riot-racked Los Angeles in the footsteps of Philip Marlowe, crossing the Arizona Desert on Route 66 like Steinbeck''s Depression-era migrant workers or searching for the characters of Cannery Row in Monterey, Young brilliantly uses the past to illuminate the present. ''Gavin Young is perpetually inquisitive, racially colour-blind, intrepid, reflective and gregarious ... plainly a man in a million, and a writer in two.'' Bernard Levin ''He catches the mind''s eye of the reader very deftly ... and, without losing his sense of irony, gives us a genuine account of the tragedy and the pathos, as well as the optimism and bravery, that created American civilization.'' Christoper Hitchens, Mail on Sunday

DKK 192.00
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Engage the Enemy More Closely - Correlli Barnett - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Engage the Enemy More Closely - Correlli Barnett - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The accepted interpretation of Britain''s wartime role as an island sea power is challenged by Correlli Barnett''s brilliant demonstration that the dependence on seashore imports of food and raw materials, together with the obligations of Empire, were less a form of strength to Britain than a weakness. Topics discussed in this book range from strategic debates in London and Washington to gripping descriptions of the Royal Navy in action: the remorseless struggle against the U-boat in the Atlantic, the desperate convoy battles in the Mediterranean and the Arctic, and the battles in the Far East. It weaves in the rivalry between Allied and German technology and the all-important secret war of the cryptographers. ''This outstanding military historian has turned to maritime war and written an authoritative, meticulously researched and stirring account of the Royal Navy''s part in World War II.'' Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin of Greenwich, KG, GCB, LVO, DSC

DKK 315.00
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Shock and Awe - Simon Reynolds - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Shock and Awe - Simon Reynolds - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

A Guardian, Sunday Times, Mojo , Daily Telegraph and Observer Book of the Year Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017 As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe , Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex -- all are represented here. Reynolds charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies and brings it right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and the aftershocks of David Bowie''s death. Shock and Awe is a defining work and another classic in the Faber Social rock n roll canon to stand alongside Rip it Up , Electric Eden and Yeah Yeah Yeah .

DKK 162.00
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The Last Emperor of Mexico - Edward Shawcross - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Last Emperor of Mexico - Edward Shawcross - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''Hilarious, heartbreaking and utterly extraordinary.'' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Books of the Year ‘Superbly entertaining.’ Financial Times ‘Jaw-dropping.’ Sunday Times ‘Fascinating.’ Guardian ‘Gripping.’ The Times ‘Terrific . . . A page-turning history of imperial hubris and nemesis, deceit and delusion, love and betrayal on a grand scale.’ Sunday Times In 1864, a young Austrian archduke by the name of Maximilian crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. He had been lured into the voyage by a duplicitous Napoleon III. Keen to spread his own interests abroad, the French emperor had promised Maximilian a hero’s welcome. Instead, he walked into a bloody guerrilla war. With a head full of impractical ideals – and a penchant for pomp and butterflies – the new ‘emperor’ was singularly ill-equipped for what lay in store. This is the vivid history of this barely known, barely believable episode – a bloody tragedy of operatic proportions, the effects of which would be felt into the twentieth century and beyond.

DKK 136.00
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The MEATliquor Chronicles - Scott Collins - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The MEATliquor Chronicles - Scott Collins - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Bull-free recipes, from the Backyard Burger to Turbo Prawn Cocktail? Yes.Sobriety-baiting cocktails, like the New Cross Negroni and Corpse Reviver No. 69? Check.Guest recipes from a host of like-minded chefs and restaurants, including Bone Daddies and Gizzi Erskine? Indeed.Tales of drunkenness, excess and abject humiliation at the hands of megaphone-touting barmaids in bikini tops? Got it.Disquisitions on subjects as diverse as the etiquette of queuing and the benefits of beer cans over bottles, especially for dolphins? Naturally.A running treatise on aesthetics by Man Booker Prize-winning author DBC Pierre allied to the history of MEATliquor, from Peckham car park to Britain''s best meat and liquor restaurants? But of course!A total and absolute disregard for the conventions of cookery-book writing? Do you really need to ask?

DKK 214.00
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Salt - Selina Thompson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Salt - Selina Thompson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Where our real home might be is tricky to say. In a way that is the point. Some people say that it is the body, but I think the body is more of a channel that leads us home. Ultimate reality is our home. It is here and now. In 2016, two artists embarked a cargo ship and retraced a route of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle – Europe, Africa, the Caribbean – all the while contemplating the notion of home. Both real and imagined, it was a journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, propelled by questions and grief; a journey backwards in order to go forwards, a diaspora. This show is what they brought back. Selina Thompson''s Salt premiered at Southbank Centre in July 2017, and went on to tour in the UK, Australia, Canada and Brazil.Winner of The Stage Edinburgh Award, The Total Theatre Award for Experimentation, Innovation and Playing with Form, and The Filipa Bragança Award. Shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award.

DKK 123.00
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Pincher Martin - William Golding - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Pincher Martin - William Golding - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Experience a shipwrecked sailor''s disintegration into ''a naked madman on a rock'' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies , introduced by Marlon James. An hour on this rock is a lifetime. Glistening limpets. Lobster claws. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there is sea. Only this jagged peak interrupts the vast expanse of the Atlantic: a tooth in a gaping jaw. But he will survive. Rainwater can be drunk; anemones eaten. He dries his oilskin beneath the screaming gulls, and discovers his papers: Christopher Hadley Martin, TY. Lieut., R.N.V.R. Weathering lightning strikes of memory, he must now reconstruct his fate - piece by terrible piece. ''Wizardry of the first order.'' Observer ''Terrifying … Magnificently original.’ Sylvia Plath ''Devastating ... Violently real ... The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.'' Marlon James ''An amazing tour de force ... A blow-by-blow struggle for survival. '' Stephen Spender ''Immense ... To read it is to undergo a shattering and memorable experience.'' Kingsley Amis ''A master fabulist ... An iconoclast.’ John Fowles

DKK 117.00
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We Own This City - Justin Fenton - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

We Own This City - Justin Fenton - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

NOW A MAJOR SKY ATLANTIC SERIES ''Unputdownable . . . fantastic and terrifying.'' Nihal Arthanayake, RADIO 5 The astonishing true story of ''one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation'' ( New York Times ) Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in over two decades. For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers – the Gun Trace Task Force – had been the city’s lauded heroes, working to get drugs and guns off the streets. But all the while they had been stealing drugs and money and gaming the system. Because who would believe the dealers, the smugglers or the people who had simply been going about their daily business over the word of the city''s elite task force?‘A work of journalism that not only chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt police unit, but can stand as the inevitable coda to the half-century of disaster that is the American drug war.’ David Simon

DKK 117.00
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Marina Carr Plays 1 - Marina Carr - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Marina Carr Plays 1 - Marina Carr - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark ''One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr''s writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and religious imagery is exposed... Marina Carr is a playwright to be watched.'' Sunday Tribune The Mai ''The writing is at once gentle and raucous... capable of articulating deep-seated woes and resentments in a manner you rarely find outside Eugene O''Neill.'' Observer Portia Coughlan ''A play of precocious maturity and accomplishment.'' Irish Times '' Portia Coughlan packs a hell of a punch. It hurts to look at it. But it has to be seen.'' Irish Independent By the Bog of Cats... ''A poetic realism steeped in the past... Carr has an extraordinary ability to move between the mythic and the real.'' Guardian ''A great play... a great work of poetry... the word should soon carry across both sides of the Atlantic.'' Independent

DKK 175.00
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Now the War Is Over - Paul Addison - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Now the War Is Over - Paul Addison - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''An excellent book.'' Angus Calder, London Review of Books First published in 1985, based on an acclaimed BBC TV series, Paul Addison''s Now The War is Over examines the great changes in British society that followed hard upon what had been the most destructive war ever known: years of recovery and reform, as Britain was reshaped by high ideals and a collective desire to enjoy the fruits and opportunities of peacetime.Labour was elected in 1945 on a wave of what Addison calls ''Forties collectivism.'' Soon Britons would have the benefits of Beveridge''s Welfare State, new housing, secondary education for all and, in July 1948, the dawning of the National Health Service. But new interests in consumerism and the pursuit of affluence were also emerging and, as Addison shows in this rich and fascinating study, would prove just as influential as the efforts of government.

DKK 186.00
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