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    The Color Purple
    The Color Purple
    The Color Purple
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    The Color Purple

    By Alice Walker

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    The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning novel is now a new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

    Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband.

    In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women. She meets Shug Avery, her husband’s mistress and a jazz singer with a zest for life, and her stepson’s wife, Sofia, who challenges her to fight for independence. And though the many letters from Celie’s sister are hidden by her husband, Nettie’s unwavering support will prove to be the most breathtaking of all.

    The Color Purple has sold more than five million copies, inspired an Academy Award-nominated film starring Oprah Winfrey and directed by Steven Spielberg, and been adapted into a Tony-winning Broadway musical. Lauded as a literary masterpiece, this is the groundbreaking novel that placed Walker “in the company of Faulkner” (The Nation), and remains a wrenching—yet intensely uplifting—experience for new generations of readers.

    This ebook features a new introduction written by the author on the 25th anniversary of publication, and an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

    The Color Purple is the 1st book in the Color Purple Collection, which also includes The Temple of My Familiar and Possessing the Secret of Joy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateOct 11, 2023
    ISBN9781504093538
    The Color Purple
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    Alice Walker

    Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, and many other works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide. 

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    • 5/5
      I picked this up on audio from @borrowbox as part of my June Pride reads. I'd seen the film years ago but had never read the book. What I found was an emotional rollercoaster that takes you by the hand and leads you through the life of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by her 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie and is trapped into an ugly marriage. Only with the appearance of glamorous Shug Avery does Celie's life start to change.

      “I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.”

      The story is primarily told in an epistolary format, through letters. Letters from Celie to God, letters to Celie herself, and later letters Celie writes to others (no spoilers here!). This adds an intimate and personal touch, as if we are reading Celie's private diary, her innermost thoughts. It is this that gives the book its raw honesty and unflinching portrayal of pain. My heart was breaking for Celie for so much of this book. It is not an easy read, and it confronts difficult topics and portrays harsh realities.

      However, it is precisely through this pain that the novel leaves a lasting impact even forty years after it was published. It is a testament to Alice Walker's writing how through this pain she shows the indomitable strength of the human spirit.

      A must-read classic of black, female and queer literature.
    • 5/5
      This is a spectacular book, isn't it? As a white Australian reading this in 2016, I am so far removed from the world of the novel for it to be an anthropological text. Walker's literary skills are superb, leading the reader on despite the often disheartening subject matter. And I can't even explain the thrill that ran up my spine reading sister Nettie's letters about her intellectual awakening in Africa. A classic.
    • 5/5
      “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”This book begins with letters to God from Celie. And then it becomes letters TO Celie from her sister Nettie. I liked Celie’s a great deal more. And, when they begin, I really liked Celie’s letters to Nettie! And then the last letter: "Dear God. Dear Stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples. Dear everything. Dear God." Such a wonderful ending!There is so much to love about this book, but I was most overwhelmed with the triumphant spirit of Celie! She endures so much and overcomes so much! What an amazing character in literature history!
    • 5/5
      I read this book for the first time when I was in my tweens or early teens. My grandmother loaned me her copy and was adamant about me giving it back. Back then, I was too clueless to know how much books could mean to a person; now I know better.This book brings so much to mind, happiness, heartbreak, hope, hurt, and anger. A lot of anger. Celie lived the hard life of a black woman in the early 1900's American. I can believe that real women lived this sort of life. She was abused for the majority of her life. She had children forced on and then solen from her. The one person who loved her fully and unconditionally was cruelly taken and kept away from her.This book makes me angry and brings me utter joy. The arcs these characters go on are amazing. We see every one of them learn and grow and change. Even Mr. had growth and development. It was much different reading this as an adult with some life experience than it was as a very young teen. Ms. Walker wrote an absolutely beautiful book.
    • 4/5
      The story of a woman who watches life pass her by, in part due to family situations and adults who don't care about her as they should. With time she learns about the outside world as she makes acquaintances who help her escape the life she has.
    • 4/5
      Keep forgetting this and Woolf's Mrs Dalloway kind of helped me figure out my sexuality in college. Wish I was more out then though. Might have to reread this book at some point.
    • 4/5
      Am I the only one who wanted Celie and Shug to run away together? Live in a nice round cottage while Shug sang and Celie made pants? I cannot believe it took me this long to read the book. Only took me 2 days as I was sucked in.

      I took off a star because I wasn't too interested in Nettie's life in Africa. I wanted more time dedicated to Celie coming into her own. I also wanted more justice done for her. The men in this book were all trash minus Samuel and Adam.

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      POPSUGAR 2021 READING CHALLENGE - A book everyone seems to have read but you • This is a very popular book and even though I have seen the movie tons of times, I just now read the book.
    • 4/5
      I came to this knowing very little about the details of this book. I knew it was ground breaking, I knew it was a prize winner, but that was about it. Until late on in the book I struggled to place it in time. I'm still not exactly sure of the duration of the book, but it certainly takes place over several decades. It is told in a series of letters, whether actual or metaphorical is not always clear, initially from Celie to God and later between Celie & her sister Nettie. Celie is the oldest daughter and she is raped by her step-father, the resulting children taken away and she ends up married to an older man whose wife has died. He wants a wife to replace the previous one and to take care of his children. He is noticeably not named, being referred to as Mr _____ through the majority of the book. He wanted to marry Nettie, as the prettier sister, but is persuaded to take Celie, and Nettie disappears. Celie's life is pretty grim and she initially appears to be quite meek and down trodden. She is, however, a survivor and she grows through the book, coming into her own. There is an array of various characters and relatives that come and go through the book. It is noticeable that the most engaging are the women. I got somewhat confused at times with who was related to who, with most characters seeming to have multiple partners, legalised or not. It felt somewhat at odds with the writing to God and the religion embraced by Nettie.I found it took a little while to get used to the dialect used by Celie in her letters. It was interesting that Nettie's letters had a different language and usage, reflecting the apparent extended schooling and the environment she subsequently found herself in. It took a while to get my eye in, to "hear" Celie, rather than read the words, as written. I thought it was worth the effort. I thought that there were several areas that I thought were rather too neatly tied up. I'm not sure how Nettie and her rather more traditional approach to marriage & religion would sit alongside Celie and her relationships. Nettie and Samuel leave Africa and the village they lived in for a decade (it's unclear how long exactly) is barely mentioned again. The relationship between Sofia and Eleanor Jane was particularly interesting, the way that relationship ebbed and flowed felt to be well represented. This could have been a more substantial exploration of race relations. I appreciate that this was a ground breaking book in its time, it remains a book worth reading. The most rewarding aspect being the way that Celie changes and grows, she comes into her own and establishes herself in the world. The scene towards the end when she is sitting on the porch with her husband and he is referred to by his first name feels to me to be a huge step from the Celie we meet at the beginning of the book.
    • 5/5
      It was surprising to me that I'd lived in the world this long without ever having read this book or seen the movie it was based on, but I honestly was glad I was induced to doing so at this point in my life, and in this era of our country. It is interesting what messages Spielberg chose to take from this novel and depict onscreen, and it's fascinating to look at both the book and movie through the lens of what stories could be told in the 1980's versus now.
    • 4/5
      Beautiful, legendary novel about finding your voice. 100% different than the Steven Spielberg adaptation. Late in finding it but glad I did.
    • 5/5
      You get to truly hear the voice of the main character while seeing major character development for every single role in the book. Its heartbreaking, thought provoking, and is wrapped up in a beautiful happy ending bow.
    • 5/5
      This book was excellent! The format of letters between sisters worked well to convey each of their stories (and the difference in education between them). The female characters, primary focus of the novel, are wonderful. Walker’s novel earns its praise.
    • 4/5
      So here is what I knew about this book before I went in – it's confronting, it's a major work of Black feminist (or womanist) literature, it's been banned in a lot of times and places, and Alice Walker refused to allow it to be published in Israel out of support for the BDS movement.

      So there's our starting point. It's also probably useful to know that it's set in rural Georgia over the first half of the twentieth century, spanning a period of 30 years, because I didn't know this when I started out I was guessing a much earlier setting. It is a confronting book, especially the beginning, which is a seriously brutal way to start a book. It actually squicked me quite a lot so it took a long time for the book to grow on me, but by the end, I really liked it. Probably what turned things around for me was Celie's pursuit of happiness – with the help (and love!) of her friend Shug, she's able to stop being someone who horrible things happen to all the time and start to be her own person, which I appreciated.

      There's a lot in here, and a large cast of characters; I hadn't actually expected that the narrative would make it to Africa and comment on female genital mutilation practices (as well as the relationship between Africans and African-Americans). But it did. I hadn't really expected it to be so spiritual either, but it was that too (and that's where the title comes from, too – reflecting on the wonder of the colour purple). Indeed I would say spirituality is the thing this novel seeks to impart most of all; the need to accept God is no white man, but inside and a part of everything. I'm not really sure about that, honestly, but taking wonder in the natural world is something I can understand. I was less keen on Celie forgiving her long-time abusive husband. Sure, I guess it shows there are reasons why lower-class or marginalised men abuse – alienation, feelings of powerlessness – but just on an emotional level, I did not like it.

      The novel also attracts some comment for its "subversion of gender roles", but honestly it just depicts people as they are (or were), which often is not totally in line with gender roles, even when that pressure is there. For instance, Harpo tries to be a violent, domineering husband because that's what he's been taught, but every time he tries to beat his wife Sofia, she bashes him nastily and he can't manage it. He clearly feels insecure about this failing, which just makes him even more anxious to be violent, and so it goes. But I think Walker is good about not just vilifying men on an individual level, but showing what pressure these alienated, downtrodden men are under to conform to this model. Even so, I don't think forgiving them is necessary! And while some women "subvert gender roles" by being confident and assertive, it's not like they're living without the context of an extremely patriarchal society, and they're often punished for it. So I would describe the characterisation as realistic, rather than "subversive". Although I guess those are the same thing sometimes.

      Overall, I'd highly recommend this. It was political but never forced, dealing with racism, women's oppression, abuse, lesbianism, and ended on a positive note in spite of the horrifying beginning. Well worth persevering.
    • 4/5
      One of my favorite films is The Color Purple. I actually didn't realize it until recently, as I was reading the book and it just happened to come on cable. I proceeded to watch it twice during the time of reading the book and I remembered how much I loved it. Well, the film in no way prepared me for how wonderful the book is. The film and the book are actually pretty close until it gets closer to the end. The ending in the book blows the movie away. The Color Purple is not just a story of a black woman who struggles with an abusive husband and missing a sister who she felt was the only person who ever loved her. It's a story of a community of black people who try to exist in a world of the white man's disdain and oppression. What makes the book so much better than the movie is that Walker allows the characters to grow in the end. There is a feeling of redemption for all of the characters, not just Celie. I liked it much better. Once again, the book prevails over the movie. Go figure. ;O)
    • 3/5
      Look, I can see why this is a classic and I'm glad I read it. It just didn't grab hold of my heart the way it clearly has for some other people. (And... I'm a white middle-class gal in Australia. Maybe it's not meant for me. That's ok.)

      I did have some issues and I'm gonna mention them and if it causes hate then bring it.

      Firstly, the back cover blurb* of my copy claims that Celie "discovers... the love and support of women". Does she? Because I read a book where her some-time lesbian lover abandons her for a 19-year-old flute-playing dude. And Celie ends up sewing on the porch with her rapist, nameless husband.

      The misery. Oh, god the misery. In the first couple of pages we've got rape and incest and stolen babies. Then some forced marriage and more rape. But towards the end, we discover that it's not really incest because it wasn't Celie's biological father! Like that makes it better. Hint: it totally doesn't make it better. But when Celie is doing well and making her fortune sewing pants and loving Shug and renovating her house it all happens offscreen. Like the book only exists to dwell on Celie's misfortune, because as soon as Shug leaves again we're right back there, wallowing in Celie's misery.

      The pacing. Literally half the book covers Celie's miserable life with her nameless husband (and serious just tell us his surname. Eventually he gets a first name so why this crap with the Mr. ____? And then throwing in a chapter where there's another Mr. ___? Just. Give. Them. Names.) and then Sofia's struggles with Harpo and her encounter with the mayor's wife.

      Then we cut to Nettie, which come on why did Celie just assume she was dead? Because she'd told Nettie to find Samuel and Corrine, who can't have lived that far away because Celie met them at the shops. But when no letters arrive, Celie's just like, 'guess my sister must be dead and I'm going to make absolutely no attempt to find her'. And Nettie, who Mr. ___ had literally told he was going to hide her letters, made no effort to get in touch with Celie any other way.

      Sure, this is a book about the friendship of women.

      So we cut to Nettie's bit, and two letters in she's like, 'oh yeah, I ran in Sofia on the street the other day, being the Mayor's wife's maid and all' and it's like, what the hell is the time frame here? How often did Nettie write? Did all of that with Harpo and Sofia and the pregnancy and marriage and domestic violence and weight gain and punching the mayor's wife and trial and prison somehow happen in a couple of months? What the hell?

      And then Nettie goes to Africa, which is actually more interesting than the dreary abuse cycle at home with Celie. But I'm gonna mention the part where Tasha gets the "facial scarification" and undergoes the "female initiation ceremony" (which is clearly female circumcision). Because after that, the thing she's most worried about is her facial scars. Not the genital mutilation. Good luck with that marriage, Adam. Shug ain't gonna be teaching her about her "little button", because it's probably been sliced off.

      So, not the worst, but not something I'll be rereading or recommending either.

      *Which, ok, the author probably didn't get much of a say in that. But still.
    • 3/5
      I liked this book a lot more than I expected to. It was quite a heartbreaking story all around. I loved Nettie (who was my favorite character) and I really enjoyed hearing about her trip to Africa. I thought it was interesting how the village held the roof plant as a sort of deity. I had a harder time getting through the other chapters because of the way that it was written. It was a good way to create a voice for the character but it was just not my style.
    • 5/5
      I devoured this book. A very visceral, vivid read, quite difficult at times. Absolute highest recommend for any and all to read.
    • 5/5
      What an amazing book! The story is of Celie who has suffered so much abuse in her lifetime first by her father then her husband. Celie has no one for the longest time, her sister fleas to get away from their dad, she's forced to take care of ungrateful children, her two babies she had with her father are taken away from her and the town thinks she's trash for having babies so young. Women look down on her for being so passive and make comments about this to her face all the time. Her life changes when she meets Shug, a woman her husband is in love with and Celie can see why he does love her. Alice Walker is a fantastic writer, her characters are so well done and she uses letters to tell the story and it just works so good. The way the story unfolds at a steady pace keeps the reader interested. There are parts that are hard to read, the abuse, Celie's feelings about herself and religion, but all of it is worth it. Such a strong emotional read.
    • 4/5
      A good book. My memory is a little foggy, but I do remember really liking it and reading through it rather quickly.
    • 4/5
      I'd never read this modern classic Pulitzer winner before, and on reflection I certainly see why it's important despite not really loving it. I suspect at the time it was published it was something like a bolt of lightening--not unique or first but certainly striking and electrifying. I didn't care much for the style (and one stylistic choice--using a dash for a man's name--annoyed me enough to jolt me out of the story occasionally, even after I'd told myself to stop mentally whinging about it and carry on). I desperately wanted all of the characters to find some happiness or contentment or peace without, somehow, really caring about them as individuals. A book I will always be glad I read but not one which has settled on my heart.
    • 5/5
      The Color Purple by Alice Walker; (5+*) I find The Color Purple to be as beautifully written today as it was when I read it for the first time upon it's release. Alice Walker was given a gift to put onto paper for the rest of the world to share with her."I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."(Shug to Celie)"What I love best bout Shug is what she been through, I say. When you look in Shug's eyes you know she been where she been, seen what she seen, did what she did. And now she know."(Celie to Mr.)The Color Purple is a pure example of great and wonderful literature. Alice Walker proves the hardship of life for those less fortunate. The painful and hard things that Celie had to go through make you feel total compassion for the character.One of the best qualities of a writer is being able to make the reader feel what the characters are feeling and in writing this book Alice Walker did just that.I very highly recommend this book.
    • 4/5
      Not at all what I expected - a book that grows on you as you get deeper in. Told in letters, firstly from Celie to God and then between the sisters Celie and Nettie, The Color Purple tells something of what it was like to be poor and black in the USA between the wars. And of how humanity and love can triumph in the darkest of circumstances. I found the beginning very confronting but as I grew to know the characters I grew to love them. Indeed it's a book about growth and change for no-one in the book remains static. It also reminds those privileged by way of our race or social standing that introspection and love can be found wherever there are human beings.
    • 3/5
      Alice Walker’s classic contemporary novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and the National Book Award. It has also appeared on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit sexual and violent content.At the heart of this novel is the protagonist Celie’s motto: "I maybe black, I may be poor, I maybe a woman, and I may even be ugly! But thank God I'm here." The story begins in 1930s Georgia when a 14-year-old Celie is beaten and raped by the man she believes to be her father. The reader gets the impression that the beating and the rape are nothing new for Celie, but now that she is maturing, a pregnancy is. She has no idea what is happening to her and when a baby appears, she is shocked. Her father takes the baby away. Celie believes that he kills her little boy Soon, Celie is pregnant again, and once again, her father takes her daughter, again to be slaughtered.Told in letters to God and her sister, Nettie, Celie’s story brings home in terrifying detail the description of a young black woman’s life in the early- to mid-20th century. Black women during this time were on the bottom rung of society. Heck, sometimes even animals were higher on the scale than African-American women.Celie is forced to marry a man who wanted to marry Nettie. As her father did, the man readers only know as “Mister,” treats her the same as her father did. She is good for nothing but cooking, cleaning, and sex. When Mister forces himself on Nettie, she has no choice but to leave. Soon she is living as a governess in South Africa. Nettie has promised to write, but decades pass before Celie discovers the letters Mister hid from her.Walker’s epistolary style and use of Southern English make the novel seem more like a journal. At first, I was pulled in and couldn’t read fast enough. However about two-thirds through, I started to get bored. Once the story’s focus shifted Celie’s plight to Nettie, I lost interest. I’ve never seen the movie, but I felt the same way when I saw the musical. That’s why I give The Color Purple 3 out of 5 stars.
    • 5/5
      Utterly brilliant and breathtaking. Rarely does an author create a narrative voice so compelling, so poignantly sad and simultaneously strong. The is a story of the triumph of faith and love over racism, misogyny, and economic enslavement. Published 35 years ago, but as relevant and resonant today as it was in 1982.
    • 4/5
      (this review originally written for Bookslut)

      I have to admit, I came to Alice Walker's The Color Purple with a lot of baggage. Of course I've seen the movie, who hasn't? But it was so long ago that most of it has faded, I only remember bits and snatches. Also, in high school I read Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy, because I was obsessed with Tori Amos at the time, and "Cornflake Girl" was supposed to have been partially based on the novel. So it's fair to say I had a lot of expectations of The Color Purple.

      Secondly, I should admit that bookslut or not, I have a few pet peeves when it comes to reading novels. (Don't we all?) This book irritated two of them right from the first line. To begin with, the book is written in epistolary form, which outside of books actually written in the 18th century, makes me cringe. I've just seen it used as a crutch, and done poorly, too many times. But that's a minor matter compared to my other objection to the book: it's written in dialect. If it hadn't been so long since I finished a 100 Books List book for Bookslut, I might have thrown the book aside.

      But I'm glad I didn't. The epistolary form worked, and the dialect was just enough to flesh out the character of the narrator, not so much that you had to work really hard just to figure out what any particular word was supposed to mean. And Celie is one of the most sympathetic characters in the history of literature. Her life is undeniably horrible, but she perseveres, ostensibly because she has no idea that life can be different from what she's known. The one time she lashes out at anyone, telling her step-son Harpo that he should beat his wife, Sofia, no harm seems to come of it, but she comes to regret it anyway. Yes, Sofia leaves Harpo, but you get the idea that she would have anyway, as Harpo is not able to reconcile his wife's strong character with his image of what a father and husband should be, after watching his father beat both of his wives.

      While we're on the topic of wife-beating, one of the most heard criticisms of The Color Purple is that it depicts black men unfairly. Personally, I don't see it. Yes the three main male characters are wife-beaters and child molesters. But Walker does not turn a blind eye to the social forces that eventually cause the men to lash out in frustration and rage. Further, Celie's son, Adam, and Nettie's husband, Samuel are shown as good, upright men, and even Albert, Celie's abusive husband, is given a chance to redeem himself in the end.

      Aside from a few instances in the latter half of the book where Walker seems to deviate from telling the story of Celie and her family and launch into a lecture about one or another of her personal beliefs, this book is truly wonderful. Uplifting without shying away from poverty and misery, and honest without being overly negative. Perhaps it is a slightly guilty pleasure, but just because it's easy to read, that doesn't make it fluff, as the fact that The Color Purple won a Pulitzer Prize should attest. I certainly cannot praise this book any more eloquently than the hundreds who have gone before me, so I will simply say this: Walker has certainly earned her place on our list.
    • 3/5
      A raw, powerful read. Recommended by Emma Watson's feminist book club. This story affected me deeply, in much the same way as "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. The Color Purple was brutal in its examination of racism, told mostly from the viewpoint of a black woman whose pathway in life was circumscribed by her sex and colour. One of my favourites.
    • 5/5
      Powerful, serene, and equal parts tragic and uplifting, it is undeniable that The Color Purple deserves its place among the greatest American books.
    • 4/5
      Compelling reading for the challenging subjects of child sexual abuse, desertion of children, genital mutilation, African American livesin the rural South, Africa after slavery, and more -Alice Walker deals with all of this while unfolding Celie's existence and awakening in many beautiful and unexpected ways.She does not flinch from delivering no decent males until Samuel and Adam, with God and Love in their hearts, step up.Book would flow better if "Mr. ___________" was simply replaced by "Mr. (any name or letter)."
    • 5/5
      What can I say about THE COLOR PURPLE? Wow. It's the ultimate story of survival, even when everything in life is stacked against you. When Celie tells her sister Nettie to write, and Nettie responds "Nothing but death can keep me from it!" well, that's when the tears start flowing. I've loved this book for 25 years, and just recently did I get a chance to listen to it on audio. It's narrated by the author herself, Alice Walker, and her voice was perfect for Celie. I enjoyed it so much, and I think everyone should give this book a read or listen. Powerful!
    • 5/5
      Great book. Horrible movie.

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    The Color Purple - Alice Walker

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