{"product_id":"deaf-republic","title":"Deaf Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeaf 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Royal Gift Land","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42234113065049,"sku":"9781555978310","price":13.32,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/0206\/3705\/files\/9781555978310.jpg?v=1752284785","url":"https:\/\/royalgiftland.com\/products\/deaf-republic","provider":"Royal Gift Land","version":"1.0","type":"link"}