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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.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781555978310","publication_date":"20190305","publisher":"Graywolf","slug":"deaf-republic","subtitle":"Poems","title":"Deaf Republic"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"POE023060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Political & Protest Poetry","score":0.7358,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LCO008010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Eastern European Collections","score":0.7306,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE005060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Asian American Poetry","score":0.7267,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"POE023060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Political & Protest Poetry","score":0.7358,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LCO008010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Eastern European Collections","score":0.7306,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE005060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Asian American Poetry","score":0.7267,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"LAN017000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Sign Language","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE005010","confidence_band":"high","label":"American Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE016000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Russian & Soviet Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Political & Protest Poetry","score":0.7358,"slug":"political-protest-poetry"},{"label":"Eastern European Collections","score":0.7306,"slug":"eastern-european-collections"},{"label":"Asian American Poetry","score":0.7267,"slug":"asian-american-poetry"}],"reader_fit":["Readers drawn to poetry confronting political violence and collective silence","Good for readers interested in a love story woven through an insurgency"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Tomasz Jedrowski"],"book_id":"9780062890016","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780062890016.jpg?v=3dce1f5438919cd0","score":0.659,"title":"Swimming in the Dark","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780062890016"},{"authors":["J. 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