Deafening
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Price:
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$19.99
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On Sale:
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15/05/2009
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Formats:
Trade PB
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Itani’s beloved, award-winning novel, set on the eve of the
Great War and spanning two continents, tells the story of Grania, a young deaf
woman who falls in love with Jim, a hearing man. As the war explodes across
Europe, Jim becomes a stretcher-bearer, and through the years of separation, he
and Grania attempt to sustain their love in a world as beautiful as it is
brutal.
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Critical Praise for
Deafening
“Itani has entered a league inhabited by few Canadians beyond
Margaret Atwood.”
—
Ottawa Citizen
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Deafening
Deaf since she was five years old, Grania has learned that watching is not always enough to survive in the world of the hearing. Sent to the Ontario School for the Deaf in Belleville, Ontario, Grania must learn to live away from her loving family. When Grania falls in love with Jim, a young hearing...
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