Deafening

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“THIS EXCEPTIONAL NOVEL MOVES FROM THE SILENCE OF THE DEAF TO THE CACOPHONY OF THE FRONT DURING WORLD WAR I. IN BETWEEN ARE THE HOPES AND DREAMS WHICH DEFINE OUR HUMANITY. TREMENDOUSLY MOVING … A REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT.”
— ALISTAIR MACLEOD

Set on the eve of the Great War, Deafening is a novel spanning two continents and the life and loves of a young Deaf woman, Grania O’Neill.

As a result of a childhood illness, Grania’s is a world without sound, a world bounded by a powerful family love. When it becomes clear that Grania needs more than the world of the hearing can offer, her family sends her to live and learn at the Ontario School for the Deaf in Belleville.

Upon graduation, she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, and the two, in wonderment, begin to create a new emotional vocabulary that encompasses both sound and silence.

Soon after their wedding, Jim must leave home to serve as a stretcher bearer on the battlefields of Flanders. During this long war of attrition, Jim and Grania’s letters back and forth attempt to sustain their young love in a world as brutal as it is beautiful.

A magnificent tale of love and war, Deafening is an ode to language — how it can console, imprison and liberate, and how it alone can bridge vast chasms of geography and experience.

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