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AUGUST
The Pope’s Daughter
Dario Fo
Translated from the Italian
by Antony Shugaar
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Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most
vilified women in modern history.
The daughter of a notorious
pope, she was twice betrothed
before the age of eleven and
thrice married—one husband
was forced to declare himself
impotent and thereby unfit,
and another was murdered by
Lucrezia’s own brother, Cesare
Borgia. She is cast in the role
of murderess, temptress,
incestuous lover, loose woman,
femme fatale par excellence.
But there are two sides to every
story.
Lucrezia Borgia is the only woman in history to have served as the head of the
Catholic Church. She successfully administered several of Renaissance Italy’s
most thriving cities, founded one of the world’s first credit unions, and was
a generous patron of the arts. She was mother to a prince and to a cardinal.
She was a devoted wife to the Prince of Ferrara, and the lover of the poet
Pietro Bembo. She was a child of the Renaissance and in many ways the
world’s first modern woman.
Nobel laureate, Dario Fo, reveals Lucrezia’s humanity, her passion for life,
her compassion for others, and her skill at navigating around her family’s
evildoings. The Borgias are unrivalled for the range and magnitude of their
political machinations and opportunism. Fo’s brilliance rests in his rendering
their story as a shocking mirror image of the uses and abuses of power in our
own time. Lucrezia herself becomes a model for how to survive and rise above
those abuses.
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• House of Cards meets Macbeth meets Wolf Hall in this tale of political maneuvering
and powerful families
• National print review coverage
• Galley giveaway competitions
• Regional interest: Italy, Renaissance, Rome
• Reading group guide available
Comparative titles: Bring Up The Bodies and Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; Baltasar and Blimunda
by Jose Saramago; Blood and Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant.
On sale: August 4 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452742
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Praise for Dario Fo
“Fo is a kind of medieval jester, and here he entertainingly describes the many
virtues of that grand dame of the Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia.”
—El País (Spain)
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“In this novel, Fo reveals Lucrezia’s humanity, thus liberating her from
the stereotypes of wanton, incestuous woman and placing her into proper
historical context and into her day-to-day life.”
—The Huffington Post (Italy)
“Dario Fo takes the image that has been sent down to us all the way from
John Ford’s Tis a Pity She’s a Whore through Victor Hugo’s play Lucrezia
Borgia to a slew of the recent popular biographies and turns it inside out.”
—La Repubblica (Italy)
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Born near Lago Maggiore in Italy in 1926, Dario Fo
is an actor, playwright, comedian, director, songwriter
and political campaigner. His first one-act play was
produced in 1958 and since then he has written, directed
and acted in over forty plays and theatrical productions.
In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In the words of the Nobel Prize committee: “He if
anyone merits the epithet of jester in the true meaning
of that word. With a blend of laughter and gravity he opens our eyes to abuses
and injustices in society and also the wider historical perspective in which
they can be placed.” The Pope’s Daughter is his first novel.
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Mayumi and the Sea
of Happiness
Jennifer Tseng
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Books are Mayumi’s one source
of true pleasure. Forty-one years
old, disenchanted wife and dutiful
mother, her work at the town
library on a small island off the
coast of New England feeds her
passion for reading and provides
her with occasions for wry
observations on human folly,
but it does little to remedy the
mundanity of her life. That is, until
the day she issues a library card
to a shy seventeen-year-old boy
and swiftly succumbs to a sexual
obsession that subverts the way she
sees her work, family, the island
she lives on, and ultimately herself.
All too conscious of her growing attraction to the young man yet wary of
the consequences of acting upon her impulses, Mayumi is hesitant at first. She
befriends Violet, the young man’s mother, in an attempt to be close to him while
maintaining a safe physical distance. But her obsession gathers force and after
a season of overlong glances and nervous conversation in the library, Mayumi
quietly propositions the boy. Her life is radically enriched by the few hours she
shares with the young man each week. As their relationship deepens, and they
begin to share opinions about the books they love and the dreams that animate
them, ending the affair seems as impossible as it is imperative.
Exquisitely written and compulsively readable, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
is equal parts wry confession and serious meditation. At its most anxious it’s
a book about time, at its most ecstatic it’s a deeply human story about passion
and pleasure.
• Library marketing
• Regional interest: New England, Martha’s Vineyard, Islands
• Book group marketing and reading group guide available
• Social media campaign and galley giveaway on Shelf Awareness and Goodreads
Comparative titles: The Professor by Terry Castle; Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller; You Deserve
Nothing by Alexander Maksik; The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud; Ancient Light by John
Banville
On sale: May 26 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452698
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From Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
It began at the library. While the young man waited quietly to be helped,
I stood neatly in thrall to the world outside the window. Momijigari was
ending; leaves were falling in drifts like snow. Blackcaps were eating the
trees, striking the bark with their beaks then rapidly chewing it, in that
annual burlesque of sheer appetite I’ve always found vulgar. When I
turned, he cleared his throat and asked for a library card. He explained
with darting, downcast eyes that although he’d been coming to the library
with his mother since he was a child, he’d never had his own card. There
was something in his manner—softness, reverence, a hesitation in the
face—that is peculiar to a son close to his mother. Doesn’t intimacy
foster reverence more completely than anything that can be taught? As
I handed him the form and then watched as he filled it in—his fingers
fumbling a bit with the tiny pencil—I didn’t think of having him yet, I
simply gaped at his beauty. I had the thought: he is out of reach, a thought
that, had I been younger, might have spurred me on, but in middle age,
told me to retreat.
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Photo © Maceo Senna
Jennifer Tseng’s first book The Man With My Face
won the 2005 Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s
National Poetry Manuscript Competition and a 2006
PEN American Center Open Book Award. Her second
book Red Flower, White Flower, winner of the Marick
Press Poetry Prize, features Chinese translations
by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen. Mayumi and
the Sea of Happiness is her debut novel. She works
at the West Tisbury Library on Martha’s Vineyard.
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Venetia
Roberto Tiraboschi
by Katherine Gregor
In the twelfth century AD,
Venice is little more than an
agglomeration of small islands
snatched from the muddy tides.
The magnificent and powerful
Serene Republic is yet to be born.
Here, in this northern backwater,
a group of artisans have proven
themselves to be unrivalled in an
art form that produces works of
such astounding beauty that many
consider it mystical in nature
and think its practitioners
possessed of otherworldly gifts.
They are glassmakers. Presciently
aware of the power they wield
and the role they will play in the
Venice of the future, the Venetian
glassmakers inhabit a world of esoteric practices and secret knowledge that
they protect at all costs.
Into this world steps Edgardo d’Arduino, a cleric and a professional copyist.
Edgardo’s eyesight has begun to waver, but he has heard stories, perhaps
legends, that in Venice, city of glassmakers, there exists a stone, the lapides ad
legendum, that can restore one’s sight. When a series of horrific crimes shakes
the cloistered world of the glassmakers, Edgardo realizes that there is much
more at stake than his failing vision.
Equal parts The Name of the Rose and The Da Vinci Code, Roberto Tiraboschi’s
English-language debut is a gripping historical thriller and a magnificent
recreation of Venice in the Middle Ages.
• Regional interest: Italy, Venice, Middle ages
Comparative titles: The Glassblower from Murano by Marina Fiorato; The Name of the Rose by
Umberto Eco; The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
On sale: May 5 • Historical Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452650
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From Venetia
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The men looked at one another, terrified.
“These eyes are the color of hell,” someone cried. “It is the work of
Beelzebub!”
They immediately made the sign of the cross. No one had ever seen
such horror. Gouged out eyes, hands cut off, men hanged, and women
burned at the stake were commonplace, but that fixed gaze and the icy
light of the stones penetrated one’s soul like an augury of death, a curse,
the Apocalypse foretold. Who could have done this to the hapless Balbo?
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Photo © Mario Orfini
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Roberto Tiraboschi was born in Bergamo (Italy)
and lives between Rome and Venice. Screenwriter
and playwright, he has worked with Nobel laureate
Dario Fo and written screenplays for Italian directors,
including Marco Pontecorvo, Silvio Soldini, Liliana
Cavani, among others. His novels, Sonno and
Sguardo 11, have enjoyed critical and commercial
success in Italy. Venetia is the first of his novels to be
published in English.
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The World
is a Wedding
Wendy Jones
It is 1926. Wilfred Price, purveyor
of superior funerals, is newly
married to the beautiful (and
pregnant) Flora Myffanwy, but as
much as he loves Flora, he senses
her distance from him. Are marriage
and fatherhood going to be very
different from how Wilfred
imagined?
His brief and painful marriage to
Grace is long behind him. Grace
has fled to London, where she is
working as a chambermaid at the
luxurious Ritz Hotel. But Grace
has a secret, one that can’t be
hidden forever and binds her
to her old life in Wales.
Despite Wilfred’s earnest effort to embrace the future, he is beginning to wonder
if the past has too powerful a hold on him in this witty and charming follow-up
to the much-loved The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor
of Superior Funerals.
• Regional interest: Wales, the United Kingdom
Comparative titles: The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals by
Wendy Jones; The History of Love by Nicole Krauss; The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomon
On sale: May 19 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452674
5¼ x 8¼ • 272 pages • $16.00 • US • ebook isbn: 9781609452773
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MAY
Praise for The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor
of Superior Funerals
“A story exploring first love, loyalty and loss—this diverting novel is pure
pleasure.”—The New York Times Book Review
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“A skillfully drawn comedy of manners.”—The New Yorker
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“This playfully poignant debut blossoms out of an irresistible premise. With
wit, compassion and spot-on prose, Jones constructs an engrossing period
drama. She expertly conjures the speech patterns, mores and physical details
of a bygone world in this remarkable debut.”—The San Francisco Chronicle
“From the vagaries of desire, through parental love and its absence, to smalltown morality, the British author has put together a thematically rich book
in a perfectly rendered time and place.”—Kirkus, starred review
“Jones skillfully demonstrates that life is made up of varying measures of both
joy and pain. Her characters are delightfully drawn, lovingly described, and
infused with life that transcends the printed page.”—World Literature Today
“A life-embracing novel.”—The Boston Globe
Wendy Jones is the author of the biography Grayson
Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl and the novel
The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor
of Superior Funerals. She completed an MA in Life
Writing at the University of East Anglia and is currently
completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths,
where she also teaches. She lives in London.
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JUNE
The Hollow Heart
Viola Di Grado
by Antony Shugaar
In this courageous, inventive,
irreverent, and shrewd novel,
Viola Di Grado tells the story
of a suicide and what follows.
She gives voice to an astonishing
vision of life after life, portraying
the awful longing and sense
of loss that plague the dead,
together with the solitude
provoked by the impossibility
of communicating. The afterlife
itself is seen as a dark, seething
place where one is preyed upon
by the cruel and unrelenting
elements. The Hollow Heart will
frighten as it provokes, enlighten
as it causes concern. If ever there
were a novel that follows Kafka’s
prescription for a book to be an axe for the frozen sea within us, it is The
Hollow Heart.
In this, Di Grado’s second novel after 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, the twentyseven-year-old prodigy gives proof of her reputation as a singular and explosive
talent.
Comparative titles: Life after Life by Kate Atkinson; The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; Samedi,
the Deafness by Jesse Ball; 70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola Di Grado.
On sale: June 23 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452711
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JUNE
Praise for 70% Acrylic 30% Wool
“A fearless first novel . . . Shimmering prose.”
—The New York Times T Magazine
“Sophisticated . . . a subtle meditation on language and its failures.”
—The Financial Times
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“[Di Grado’s] black comedy, pungent metaphors and controlled ambiguity
announce the arrival of a considerable talent.”
—The Times Literary Supplement
“Written in lavish language and with beautiful metaphors.”
—The Star Tribune
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“What a novel! Viola di Grado is undoubtedly a true creator . . . This first
novel shows immense promise.”
—The Quarterly Conversation
Viola Di Grado was born in Catania, Italy, and currently
lives in London. Her first novel, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool,
was the winner of the 2011 Campiello First Novel
Award and a finalist for Italy’s most prestigious literary
prize, The Strega.
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JULY
The Vienna Melody
Ernst Lothar
Translated from the German
by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood
Everyone in Vienna knows that
the inhabitant of number 10
Seilerstätte is none other than
Christopher Alt, piano maker, the
best in the city, probably in all of
Austria, and possibly the world
over. His piano keys have given
life to melodies by Mozart, Haydn,
Beethoven, and many more.
On his deathbed, moved by the
wish to keep his children united,
he leaves a will specifying that his
descendants, if they are to get their
inheritance, must live together
in the family home.
Over successive generations of
the Alt family, history itself passes through the doors, down the halls, and into
the private rooms of the Alt’s building. There is intrigue at the court of FranzJosef: an heir to the throne has fallen in love with Henrietta Alt, who will
have to carry the guilt for his eventual suicide. There are betrayals, beloved
illegitimate children, and despised legitimate offspring. There are seething
passions and icy relations, a world war and the rise of Nazism to contend with.
There are duels, ambitions, hopes, affairs of the heart and affairs of state.
Three generations of Alts live and die at number 10 Seilerstätte and each,
in his or her own way, is a privileged witness to the winds of change and
a Europe at the height of both its splendor and decadence.
• A lost classic returns to print
• Regional interest: Vienna, Austria, Central Europe
Comparative titles: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; War and Peace by Leo
Tolstoy; The Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
On sale: July 7 • Historical Fiction/Literary Classic • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452728
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Praise for Ernst Lothar
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“A grand novel that offers its readers a profound understanding of Vienna
and Austria, rendering them eternal.”
—The Los Angeles Times
“A long, passionate, literary embrace with a setting that provides a magnificent
backdrop for intense characters and their tangles of ruinous emotions . . . This
is a Buddenbrooks on the Danube.”
—La Repubblica (Italy)
“The epic ambitions of this writer fills the story with abiding curiosity that
leaves traces everywhere: swift and unforgettable sketches of characters,
salons, boudoirs, and fascinating gossip.”
—La Stampa (Italy)
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Ernst Lothar was born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno in the Czech
Republic) in 1890 and died in Vienna in 1974. He was a writer, theatre
director, and producer. In addition to The Vienna Melody, first published
in the US in 1944 as The Angel with the Trumpet, his best-known works
are The Prisoner and Beneath Another Sun. He was married to the Austrian
actress Adrienne Gessner.
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JULY
The Red Collar
Jean-Christophe Rufin
Translated from the French
by Adriana Hunter
In 1919, in a small town in the
province of Berry, France, under
the sweltering temperatures of
summer heat wave, a war hero is
being held prisoner in an abandoned
barrack. In front of the door to his
prison, a mangy dog barks night
and day. Miles from where he is
being held, in the French
countryside, an extraordinarily
intelligent young woman works the
land, waiting and hoping. A judge
whose principles have been sorely
shaken by the war is travelling
to an unknown location to sort out
certain affairs of which it is better
not to speak.
Three characters. In their midst, a dog holds the key both to their destinies
and to this intriguing plot.
Full of poetry and life, The Red Collar is at once a pleasingly straightforward
narrative about the human spirit and a profound work about loyalty and love.
• Regional interest: France, Europe, WWI
Comparative titles: The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
On sale: July 21 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452735
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Praise for Jean-Christophe Rufin
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“What does it mean to fight for what one loves? To act out of loyalty? Or out
of solidarity? In The Red Collar, a delicate and poetic novel, Rufin examines
that which makes us human.”—L’express (France)
“Without special effects, with simplicity and the pure pleasure of telling
a story, Jean-Christophe Rufin explores the meaning of faithfulness, loyalty,
and honor.”—Le Figaro (France)
“The Dream Maker brings to vivid life the exemplary career of a little known
medieval paragon: Jacques Cœur, banker, visionary and crafter of the glory
that was France.”—The Barnes & Noble Review
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Jean-Christophe Rufin is one of the founders of Doctors
Without Borders and a former Ambassador of France in
Senegal. He has written numerous bestsellers, including
The Abyssinian, for which he won the Goncourt Prize
for a debut novel in 1997. He also won the Goncourt
Prize in 2001 for Brazil Red. He is the author of The
Dream Maker (Europa Editions, 2013).
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BLACKBIRD
Tom Wright
Tom Wright has another winning
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his debut novel, was a New York Times Editor’s Pick
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Awards in 2012.
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THE GANG OF LOVERS
Massimo Carlotto
by Antony Shugaar
Padua, Italy. An unremarkable
man, a husband and father,
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police send his file to the cold
cases department. One woman
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disappearance, but, being the
daughter of a prominent and
wealthy Swiss industrialist, she
fears coming forward with what
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The deadly game of cat and mouse in which the good guys and the bad guys
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are survivors in a world where the once ironclad criminal codes of conduct
are disappearing and new criminal syndicates do vicious battle with old.
Massimo Carlotto was born in Padua, Italy. In addition
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Regional interest: Italy, Padua
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Years later, when the man who murdered them appeals to
Silvano to approve his application for parole, the one-time
law-abiding husband and father sees a chance to exact
revenge.
• 978-1-933372-18-4 • $14.95/£9.99 • ebook: 978-1-60945-978-9
da
To avoid prison, Giorgio Pellegrini sells out his old
friends, turns his back on his former ideals, and cuts deals
with crooked cops. To achieve the guise of respectability,
he is willing to go even further.
• 978-1-933372-05-2 • $14.95/£9.99 • ebook: 978-1-93337-205-1
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EUROPA WORLD NOIR
THE NIGHT
OF THE PANTHERS
Piergiorgio Pulixi
FIR
ST
E
IN SERI
S
by Howard Curtis
Inspector Biagio Mazzeo is the
head of a special unit composed
of cops who have been trained in
the investigation of organized
crime. He is a kind of father
figure to these hard men and he
often leads them well beyond the
confines of what is legal. But now
they’ve been found out. In order
to save his men from being
smeared in a corruption scandal,
Mazzeo sacrifices himself and is
tried and sentenced to jail time.
His sacrifice, however, isn’t enough. His unit has stolen a shipment of drugs
and its owners want it back. This time, Mazzeo’s boys have messed around
with the wrong drug cartel, for these are no ordinary criminals, this is the
’Ndrangheta, the infamous Calabrian mafia that will stop at nothing to get
what’s theirs. From behind bars Mazzeo has only one way of helping his men:
making a deal with a young female police officer who promises he will be
released and all charges dropped if Mazzeo embarks on a suicide mission
to put an end to a vicious gangland war.
In a gripping crescendo of violence, vendettas and corruption, Biagio Mazzeo
is faced with one life or death decision after another. The Night of the Panthers
is an action filled police drama that will have readers’ pulses racing.
Regional interest: Italy
Comparative titles: the film Department 36 by Olivier Marchal; The Tin Collectors by Stephen J.
Cannell; Enemy Within by Robert K. Tanenbaum
On sale: August 18 • Fiction/Crime • Paperback • isbn: 9781609452759
24
EUROPA WORLD NOIR
Praise for The Night of the Panthers
“The Night of the Panthers is not only a great novel in terms of style and plot,
but, in perfect noir fashion, it is useful for understanding organized crime
in Italy . . . Pulixi’s literary promise has become a magnificent reality.”
—Tempi Nuovi (Italy)
“Pulixi has an amazing talent for plot development and an ability to throw
readers off the scent by working in breathtaking twists.”
—Thriller Magazine
n
e
w
r
,
Piergiorgio Pulixi was born in Cagliari, Sardinia,
in 1982. He is a member of Sabot, an experiment
in collective crime fiction writing created by Massimo
Carlotto, Italy’s preeminent author of crime fiction.
He lives in London.
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