Deaf Republic: Poems

by Ilya Kaminsky

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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 - 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 theatre; and Galya's girls, heroically teaching signs 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.
  • ISBN10 1555978312
  • ISBN13 9781555978310
  • Publish Date 5 March 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Graywolf Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 80
  • Language English