Malas: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

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Malas: A GMA Book Club Pick: A NovelA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the American Book Award 2025 A Bookpage Best Historical Fiction Book of 2024 Finalist for the Writers' League of Texas 2024 Fiction Book Award Winner of the WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction 2024 Shortlisted for the 2025 Mark Twain Award A vivacious, page turning novel of rebellion and rebirth. Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last A

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Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic is a haunting narrative of political turmoil and collective silence, where a community's deafness becomes a powerful act of defiance. Through lyrical verse, Kaminsky weaves a tale of love, loss, and resistance, capturing the profound consequences of political violence on ordinary lives. This collection is a poignant testament to the resilience of the human spirit amidst oppression and serves as a stark reminder of our moral responsibilities in troubled times.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2024

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Birmingham, US

★★★★★ 5

One of the most original and moving books of poems I've ever read

Format: Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky is practically a legend, at this point, and deservedly so. This is his second book of poems, and proves well worth the wait. The individual poems are beautiful and strange; together, they comprise a kind of allegory for our times, and manage to be both somehow light-of-heart, somehow luminous, and also seriously profound. I would recommend this book even to those who don't usually read poetry, because it's beyond poetry, truly.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2019

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khaidon

Omaha, US

★★★★★ 5

Beautifully written and good quality book

Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback

I received the book earlier than the estimated date. I love this poem collection of Ilya Kaminsky. Although it describes the social unrest in an unknown place (and unfamiliar to me), his poems are beautifully written with strong images and music. THe paper quality and the book are so new and lovely. I couldn't think that it is used (as it stated).

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Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2021

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Cecile L. Schubert

Bozeman, US

★★★★★ 4

Life: A challenge in many ways in all cultures

Format: Kindle

I heard Ilya Kaminsky read his poems at Chautauqua this past summer. Over powering and dynamic to hear his voice speak his words... about his life experiences need to be remembered. A must read and if possible with the audio.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2019

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Mike Stone

Lexington, US

★★★★★ 5

A brilliant poetic narrative whose lines leap off the pages which turn themselves.

Format: Paperback

When you get to the end, you wonder how Kaminsky worked his wondrous magic, how it's possible to think and write poetry like that. The poem is a story about Vasenka, a mythical town somewhere in the Ukraine, occupied by the Soviet army during an unspecified period of time. It is an allegory of the cruelty of occupation, the futility of the resistance of a few, and the deafness of the silent majority, a deafness that courageously resists the occupation and a deafness that hardens the heart and ignores the evil surrounding them. It could have happened anywhere anytime. The occupiers could have been Nazis, Ottoman Turks, American, English, or Spanish. The poetry is piercingly sharp, visionary, breathless and the metaphors are the likes of which you've never heard before, lines like “the sound we do not hear lifts the gulls off the water,” “Our hearing doesn't weaken, but something silent in us strengthens,” or “In these avenues, deafness is our only barricade.” This is drop-dead beautiful poetry.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2019