{"product_id":"ilya-kaminsky-deaf-republic-9781555978310","title":"Deaf Republic","description":"Finalist for the National Book Award . Finalist for the PEN\/Jean Stein Award . Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award . Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize . Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award . Winner of the National Jewish Book Award . Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award . Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize . Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear-they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya's girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky's long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53199865020758,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781555978310_1.jpg?v=1781249647","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/ilya-kaminsky-deaf-republic-9781555978310","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}