{"product_id":"9781555978310","title":"Deaf Republic (LA Times Book Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eWinner  of the 2019 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056262201584,"sku":"9781555978310","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555978310_p0.jpg?v=1763756323","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555978310","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}