Finalist 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.
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..
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.
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.
Eliot Prize - Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection Ilya Kaminsky\'s astonishing parable in Poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest.
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Finalist 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
