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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; 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, Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
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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; 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, Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
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([https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic](https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic))
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([https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic](https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic))
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*Our country woke up the next morning and refused to hear soldiers.
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*Our country woke up the next morning and refused to hear soldiers. <br />
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In the name of Petya, we refuse.
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In the name of Petya, we refuse. <br />
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At six a.m., when soldiers compliment girls in the alley, the girls slide by, pointing to their ears. At eight, the bakery door is shut in soldier Ivanoff’s face, though he’s their best customer. At ten, Momma Galya chalks No One Hears You on the gates of the soldiers’ barracks.
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At six a.m., when soldiers compliment girls in the alley, the girls slide by, pointing to their ears. At eight, the bakery door is shut in soldier Ivanoff’s face, though he’s their best customer. At ten, Momma Galya chalks No One Hears You on the gates of the soldiers’ barracks. <br />
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By eleven a.m., arrests begin.
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By eleven a.m., arrests begin. <br />
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Our hearing doesn’t weaken, but something silent in us strengthens.
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Our hearing doesn’t weaken, but something silent in us strengthens.<br />
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In the ears of the town, snow falls.*
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In the ears of the town, snow falls.*
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from Deafness, an Insurgency, Begins
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from Deafness, an Insurgency, Begins
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