It takes the average reader 6 hours and 42 minutes to read A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me by Youssef Fadel
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A powerful and poetic masterpiece where ordinary people’s dreams play out in a city plagued by government exploitation and crime Shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation As his wife delivers their child in the next room, a man wakes from the nightmare of a teenage girl’s body lying beneath his bed. In this twilight before birth, Fadel’s epic novel catches us in the confusion between exaltation and despair. The girl, Farah, once dreamed of being a singer in Casablanca, a city standing in the shadow of the tallest minaret in the world. Illuminating the aspirations of those just struggling to make a living, A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me is a tour-de-force, a novel of power plays and petty jealousies, deceit and corruption, love and loss, written with Fadel’s masterful, narrative control and searing, historical insight.
A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me by Youssef Fadel is 401 pages long, and a total of 100,651 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 123% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 10 minutes to read A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me aloud.
A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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