It takes the average reader 10 hours and 6 minutes to read A Drifting Sail by Mohamed Ismail Sabry
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The fifteen-year-old aristocrat, Jean, is forced to flee Marseille during the Great French Revolution in 1789. Captured by pirates while crossing the Mediterranean Sea, he ends up being sold as a slave in Mamluk Cairo, an enigmatic city, a host for various nations and different, often conflicting, sub-cultures. Caught up in the middle of power struggles and intrigues, he sails between the worlds of mighty warlords, conquering armies, and the common people. He finds himself not only striving for survival but for finding his own path between Orient and Occident, past and present, passion and true love. For the wind is ever-changing, forcing the sail to alter its direction again and again...The original Arabic version of this novel won the second prize of the Dar Al-Odaba'a (Writers' House) Literary Competition in 2005, an important Egyptian literary competition.
A Drifting Sail by Mohamed Ismail Sabry is 602 pages long, and a total of 151,704 words.
This makes it 203% the length of the average book. It also has 185% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 48 minutes to read A Drifting Sail aloud.
A Drifting Sail is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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