It takes the average reader 10 hours and 33 minutes to read A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from...
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is 624 pages long, and a total of 158,496 words.
This makes it 211% the length of the average book. It also has 194% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 26 minutes to read A Fine Balance aloud.
A Fine Balance is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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