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Brookline Booksmith Transnational Series: Ilya Kaminsky and Kaveh Akbar

August 1, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Free

Join us for an evening of poetry with Ilya Kaminsky and Kaveh Akbar.

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. 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 theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signs by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain.

Details

Date:
August 1, 2019
Time:
7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/events/2019-08/ilya-kaminsky-and-kaveh-akbar/

Venue

Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
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Phone:
(617) 566-6660
Website:
https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.