{"product_id":"deaf-republic-poems-1555978312","title":"Deaf Republic: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1555978312\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kaminsky, Ilya\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist 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 CollectionIlya Kaminskys 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 Galyas 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 Kaminskys long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our times vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325991354656,"sku":"NEW1555978312","price":11.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81bP5a_pDIL.jpg?v=1773160079","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/deaf-republic-poems-1555978312","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}