{"product_id":"deaf-republic-book-ilya-kaminsky-9781555978310","title":"Deaf Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Jean Stein Award\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Jewish Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Deaf 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":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49581105316113,"sku":"GOR010016550","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49777556914449,"sku":"CIN1555978312G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49875712704785,"sku":"CIN1555978312VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50044953854225,"sku":"GOR010570928","price":4.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50278297665809,"sku":"CIN1555978312A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036981264657,"sku":"NIN9781555978310","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52995621126417,"sku":"CIN1555978312LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1555978312.jpg?v=1750760900","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/deaf-republic-book-ilya-kaminsky-9781555978310","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}