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Miguel Street - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Miguel Street - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Miguel Street , V. S. Naipaul’s first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is narrated by an unnamed, precociously observant neighbourhood boy. We are introduced to a galaxy of characters, from Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build ‘the wild thing without a name’, to Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big-Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. As well as the lovely Mrs Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. V. S. Naipaul writes with prescient wisdom and crackling wit about the lives and legends that make up Miguel Street: a living theatre, a world in microcosm, a cacophony of sights, sounds and smells – all seen through the eyes of a fatherless boy. The language, the idioms and the observations are priceless and timeless and Miguel Street overflows with life on every page. This is an astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter; and an enchanting and exuberant tribute to V. S. Naipaul’s childhood home.

DKK 126.00
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A House for Mr Biswas - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A House for Mr Biswas - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul''s unforgettable masterpiece. Heart-rending and darkly comic, it has been hailed as one of the twentieth century''s finest novels, a classic that evokes a man''s quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad. He was struck again and again by the wonder of being in his own house, the audacity of it: to walk in through his own front gate, to bar entry to whoever he wished, to close his doors and windows every night. Mr. Biswas has been told since the day of his birth that misfortune will follow him – and so it has. Meaning only to avoid punishment, he causes the death of his father and the dissolution of his family. Wanting simply to flirt with a beautiful woman, he ends up marrying her, and reluctantly relying on her domineering family for support. But in spite of endless setbacks, Mr. Biswas is determined to achieve independence, and so he begins his gruelling struggle to buy a home of his own. ''A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion.'' - Anthony Burgess''A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels.'' - Newsweek

DKK 127.00
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - V. E. Schwab - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - V. E. Schwab - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

From V. E. Schwab, the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into. Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.London, 1837.Boston, 2019.Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth. V. E. Schwab''s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 05/10/2020

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - V. E. Schwab - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - V. E. Schwab - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

From V. E. Schwab, the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into. Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.London, 1837.Boston, 2019.Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth. V. E. Schwab''s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 05/10/2020

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King Henry V - William Shakespeare - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

King Henry V - William Shakespeare - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector''s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector''s Library are books to love and treasure. Written at the end of the life of Elizabeth I, Henry V is an inspirational, gripping play that struck a chord in a time of uncertainty.This edition is illustrated throughout by Sir John Gilbert, and includes an introduction by Ned Halley.First staged in 1599, Shakespeare''s history of Henry V''s remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour.

DKK 120.00
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India: A Wounded Civilization - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

India: A Wounded Civilization - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The second book in V. S. Naipaul''s acclaimed Indian trilogy. In 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness , his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization . In this work he casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian attitudes, while recapitulating and further probing the feelings aroused in him by this vast, mysterious, and agonized country. What he saw and heard – evoked so superbly and vividly in these pages – reinforced in him a conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration. A work of fierce candour and precision, it is also a generous description of one man’s complicated relationship with the country of his ancestors. ‘A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts’ The Times

DKK 119.00
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The Middle Passage - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Middle Passage - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

V. S. Naipaul’s first travel book, The Middle Passage , takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest – his birthplace. In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and the Caribbean societies of four adjacent countries, Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica. Haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that it can scarcely comprehend its end, Naipaul catches this poor, topsy-turvy world at a critical moment, a time when racial and political assertion had yet to catch up – a perfect subject for the acute understanding and dazzling prose of this great writer. ‘Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.’ Evelyn Waugh ‘Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain’ New Statesman

DKK 126.00
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The Mystic Masseur - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Mystic Masseur - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Mystic Masseur , V. S. Naipaul’s first published novel, is the story of the rise and rise of Ganesh, from failed primary school teacher and struggling masseur to author, revered mystic and MBE – a journey equally memorable for its hilarity as its bewildering success. An unforgettable cast of characters witness this meteoric ascent: Ganesh’s father-in-law, Ramlogan, whose shop gave the impression that ‘every morning someone went over everything in it – scales, Ramlogan, and all – with a greased rag’; his aunt, the Great Belcher, with her troubling wind; his wife Leela, and her fondness for putting a punctuation mark after every word. Soon, Ganesh’s small hut is filled with books (1,500, as his wife will attest), and his trousers and shirt disappear to be replaced by more suitable attire for a proper mystic. As ‘The Woman Who Couldn’t Eat’ and ‘Lover Boy’, the man who fell in love with his bicycle, line up to be cured, it looks like the mystic masseur is surely destined for greatness. In one of the author’s finest comic creations we see the immense sensitivity, humour and endlessly inventive imagination that have become the hallmarks of V. S. Naipaul’s genius.

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An Area of Darkness - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

An Area of Darkness - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The first book in V. S. Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy – with a preface by the author. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul’s semi-autobiographical account – at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered – of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It became for him a land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled . . . The experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing, and engendered a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone. ‘His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself’ – The Times

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Guerrillas - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Guerrillas - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Set on a troubled Caribbean island – where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria – V. S. Naipaul''s Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Together with a leader of the ‘revolution’, they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence and spiritual impotence. Guerrillas depicts a convulsion in public life, and ends in private violence. The novel comes with extraordinary force from the centre of a profound moral awareness of the world’s plight. ‘Impeccable . . . Guerrillas seems to me Naipaul’s Heart of Darkness : a brilliant artist’s anatomy of emptiness, and of despair’ – Observer

DKK 112.00
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The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

With a preface by the author. V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction – two novels and a collection of stories – that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humour. The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul’s hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates’ tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr Stone and the Knights Companion is an ageing Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and an unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in A Flag on the Island take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad – whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese name – to a rooming house in London, where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, The Nightwatchman''s Occurrence Book is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language. ‘V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer . . . This humour, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original’ Kingsley Amis, Spectator

DKK 152.00
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India: A Million Mutinies Now - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

India: A Million Mutinies Now - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The third book in V. S. Naipaul''s acclaimed Indian trilogy, with a preface by the author. India: A Million Mutinies Now is a truly perceptive work whose insights continue to inform travellers of all generations to India. Much has changed since V. S. Naipaul’s first trip to India and this fascinating account of his return journey focuses on India’s development since independence. Taking an anti-clockwise journey around the metropolises of India – including Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, and Delhi – Naipaul offers a kaleidoscopic, layered travelogue, encompassing a wide collage of religions, castes, and classes at a time when the percolating ideas of freedom threatened to shake loose the old ways. The brilliance of the book lies in Naipaul’s decision to approach this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives: the author humbly recedes, allowing the Indians to tell the stories of their own lives, and a dynamic oral history of India emerges before our eyes. ‘With this book he may well have written his own enduring monument, in prose at once stirring and intensely personal, distinguished both by style and critical acumen’ – Financial Times

DKK 168.00
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Honeysuckle - Bar Fridman Tell - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Honeysuckle - Bar Fridman Tell - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Once upon a time, in the middle of the forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. So his sister made him a playmate – Daye, a girl woven from carefully selected flowers and words. And finally, this boy, Rory, had a friend. Rory is finally, gloriously happy, until he learns that Daye is a seasonal creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And when, one autumn, his sister fails to return home from university in time, Rory has no choice but to watch his best friend slowly crumble, not knowing until the last second if she can still be pieced together again.Realizing he can no longer rely on his sister to keep Daye alive, Rory determines he must leave home to learn how to do it himself. And the more he learns the more he starts to wonder: Why can’t Daye survive more than one season? Can he do anything to break this cycle of bloom and decay? But as Rory grows older his thoughts turn darker too . . .While Rory sinks deeper into research and experiments, ensconced in libraries and hunched in university labs, Daye is left to wait for his return. Alone. Sometimes, the silence seems to seep all the way to her branch-bones. Sometimes, the company of birds is the only thing to remind her that she is still alive. And as Rory keeps pushing his experiments further and further, Daye starts to wonder – how far is too far? A feminist Frankenstein with flowers, Honeysuckle is a deliciously dark and twisted, horror-tinged fairytale with rot at its heart . . .

DKK 155.00
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Honeysuckle - Bar Fridman Tell - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Honeysuckle - Bar Fridman Tell - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Once upon a time, in the middle of the forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. So his sister made him a playmate – Daye, a girl woven from carefully selected flowers and words. And finally, this boy, Rory, had a friend. Rory is finally, gloriously happy, until he learns that Daye is a seasonal creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And when, one autumn, his sister fails to return home from university in time, Rory has no choice but to watch his best friend slowly crumble, not knowing until the last second if she can still be pieced together again.Realizing he can no longer rely on his sister to keep Daye alive, Rory determines he must leave home to learn how to do it himself. And the more he learns the more he starts to wonder: Why can’t Daye survive more than one season? Can he do anything to break this cycle of bloom and decay? But as Rory grows older his thoughts turn darker too . . .While Rory sinks deeper into research and experiments, ensconced in libraries and hunched in university labs, Daye is left to wait for his return. Alone. Sometimes, the silence seems to seep all the way to her branch-bones. Sometimes, the company of birds is the only thing to remind her that she is still alive. And as Rory keeps pushing his experiments further and further, Daye starts to wonder – how far is too far? A feminist Frankenstein with flowers, Honeysuckle is a deliciously dark and twisted, horror-tinged fairytale with rot at its heart . . .

DKK 209.00
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Ritual of Fire - D. V. Bishop - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Ritual of Fire - D. V. Bishop - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Crime Writers'' Association Historical Dagger Winning AuthorWinner of the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel ''It''s hard to think of a better guide than D. V. Bishop to the brutality and glamour of Renaissance Florence'' - Andrew Taylor, bestselling author of The Royal Secret ''Fast becoming a serious rival to C. J. Sansom and S. J. Parris'' – Historical Novel Society Florence. Summer, 1538.A night patrol finds a wealthy merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s main square. More than mere murder, this killing is intended to put the fear of God into Florence. Forty years earlier, puritanical monk Girolamo Savonarola was executed the same way. Does this new killing mean his fanatical disciples are reviving the monk’s regime of holy terror?Cesare Aldo is busy hunting thieves in the Tuscan countryside, leaving Constable Carlo Strocchi to investigate the killing. When another merchant is burned alive in public, the rich start fleeing to their country estates. But the Tuscan hills can also be dangerous.Growing religious fervour and a scorching heatwave drives the city ever closer to madness. Meanwhile, someone is stalking those powerful men who forged lifelong bonds in the dark days of Savonarola.Unless Aldo and Strocchi work together, all of Florence will be consumed by an inferno of death and destruction. Ceremonial murder has returned to Florence. Only two men can end the destruction. Featuring Officer Cesare Aldo, Ritual of Fire is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy. Ritual of Fire is the third Cesare Aldo mystery, preceded by City of Vengeance and The Darkest Sin .

DKK 155.00
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Ritual of Fire - D. V. Bishop - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Ritual of Fire - D. V. Bishop - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Crime Writers'' Association Historical Dagger Winning AuthorWinner of the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel ''It''s hard to think of a better guide than D. V. Bishop to the brutality and glamour of Renaissance Florence'' - Andrew Taylor, bestselling author of The Royal Secret ''Fast becoming a serious rival to C. J. Sansom and S. J. Parris'' – Historical Novel Society Florence. Summer, 1538.A night patrol finds a wealthy merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s main square. More than mere murder, this killing is intended to put the fear of God into Florence. Forty years earlier, puritanical monk Girolamo Savonarola was executed the same way. Does this new killing mean his fanatical disciples are reviving the monk’s regime of holy terror?Cesare Aldo is busy hunting thieves in the Tuscan countryside, leaving Constable Carlo Strocchi to investigate the killing. When another merchant is burned alive in public, the rich start fleeing to their country estates. But the Tuscan hills can also be dangerous.Growing religious fervour and a scorching heatwave drives the city ever closer to madness. Meanwhile, someone is stalking those powerful men who forged lifelong bonds in the dark days of Savonarola.Unless Aldo and Strocchi work together, all of Florence will be consumed by an inferno of death and destruction. Ceremonial murder has returned to Florence. Only two men can end the destruction. Featuring Officer Cesare Aldo, Ritual of Fire is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy. Ritual of Fire is the third Cesare Aldo mystery, preceded by City of Vengeance and The Darkest Sin .

DKK 168.00
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Half a Life - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Half a Life - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to the immigrant and bohemian communities of post-war London, it is only in his first experience of love that he finally senses the possibility of fulfilment. In its humorous and sensitive vision of the half-lives quietly lived out at the centre of our world, V. S. Naipaul’s graceful novel brings its own unique illumination to essential aspects of our shared history. ‘Parts are as sly and funny as anything Naipaul has written. Nobody who enjoys seeing English beautifully controlled should miss this novel’ – John Carey, Sunday Times

DKK 120.00
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Among the Believers - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Among the Believers - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul’s classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia; ‘the believers’ are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism.‘This book investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand the fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and other Muslim countries . . . He is a modern master.’ - Sunday Times‘His level of perception is of the highest, and his prose has become the perfect instrument for realizing those perceptions on the page. His travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the century.’ - Martin Amis, author of Time's Arrow.

DKK 149.00
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A Writer's People - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A Writer's People - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer’s People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers. For the ‘serious traveller’, one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author’s purpose, then, ‘is not literary criticism or biography’, but only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which he was exposed. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul’s own father); the culture of school (Flaubert and the classical world); England, where with the help of friends the writer seeks to make his way; and, inevitably for a colonial Indian, there is India, to be approached through the residue of Indian culture and the scattered memories of nineteenth-century immigrants, leading to a special understanding of Mahatma Gandhi.

DKK 141.00
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Magic Seeds - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Magic Seeds - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

In V. S. Naipaul's Magic Seeds we follow Willie Chandran, a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the encouragement of his sister – and his own listlessness – and joins an underground movement in India. But years of revolutionary campaigns and then prison convince him that the revolution ‘had nothing to do with what we were fighting for’, and he feels himself further than ever ‘from his own history’. When he returns to Britain where, thirty years before, his wanderings began, Willie encounters a country that has turned its back on its past and, like him, has become detached from its own history. He endures the indignities of a culture dissipated by reform and compromise until, in a moment of grotesque revelation – a tour de force of parodic savagery from our most visionary of writers – Willie comes to an understanding that might finally allow him to release his true self. ‘A radical further step in one of the great imaginative careers of our time . . . Magic Seeds demands our attention, and nothing more authoritative will be published this year’ Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph

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