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Deafening

Purchased through an Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant.

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  • "Deafening"
  • "Deafening"@it

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  • "Elegantly written and profoundly moving, Frances Itani's debut novel, Deafening, is a tale of virtuosity and power, set on the eve of the Great War and spanning two continents and the life of a young deaf woman in Canada named Grania O'Neill."
  • "At the age of five, Grania---the daughter of hard-working Irish hoteliers in small-town Ontario---emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf, and is suddenly sealed off from the world which was just beginning to open up for her. Her mother is plagued with guilt. Her Grandmother Mamo, tries to teach her to read and speak again."
  • "When Grania emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf, she is eventually sent to the Ontario School for the Deaf to learn sign language and speech."
  • "Purchased through an Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant."@en
  • "Elegantly written and profoundly moving, Frances Itani's debut novel, Deafening, is a tale of virtuosity and power, set on the eve of the Great War and spanning two continents and the life of a young deaf woman in Canada named Grania O'Neill. d."
  • "Canadian author."@en
  • "A young deaf young girl is sent to Belleville to the school for the deaf, where she falls in love with a young man on the eve of World War 1."
  • "The story of Grania, the daughter of hard-working Irish hoteliers in small-town Ontario who emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf. Grania attends the School for the Deaf in Belleville where she meets and eventually marries Jim Lloyd, a hearing man. Two weeks after their wedding Jim leaves for the battlefields of Flanders."
  • "Left profoundly deaf from scarlet fever, Grania O'Neill grows up protected from the hearing world and learning sign language, but her life changes when she falls in love with Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, on the eve of the Great War."@en
  • "Sent to a school for the deaf, Grania O'Neill meets a hearing man, and together they create a new emotional vocabulary that encompasses both sound and silence. Shortly after their marriage, he leaves for the battlefields of Flanders, and the couple are drawn into events that will change the world forever."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Roman historique"
  • "Histoires d'amour"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Récits de guerre"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Roman canadien de langue anglaise"

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  • "De taal van de stilte"
  • "Il silenzio intorno"
  • "Il silenzio intorno"@it
  • "Sordera"
  • "Deafening : a novel"
  • "A csend fogságában"@hu
  • "A csend fogságában"
  • "Oglushitelno"
  • "Deafening : [a novel]"
  • "Une coquille de silence roman"
  • "Betäubend : Roman"
  • "Ensurdecer"
  • "Sordesa"@ca
  • "Sordesa"
  • "Zanurzona w ciszy"@pl
  • "Zanurzona w ciszy"
  • "Une coquille de silence"
  • "Zaglušujuće"
  • "Ho Ēchos tēs siōpēs"
  • "Betäubend Roman"
  • "Ho hichos tes siopes"
  • "Une coquille de silence : roman"
  • "Oglushitelno = deafening"
  • "Ensordecedor : una entrañable novela sobre la familia y el amor en tiempos difíciles"
  • "Ensordecedor : una entrañable novela sobre la familia y el amor en tiempos difíciles"@es
  • "Deafening"@en
  • "Deafening"
  • "Ensurdecedor : uma história de amor, guerra e silêncio"

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