It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wieslaw Mysliwski
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. A mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story of his long life: we witness a happy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding from the Nazis buried in a heap of potatoes, his plodding attempts to play the saxophone, the brutal murder of his family, loves lost but remembered, and footloose travels abroad. Told in the manner of friends and neighbors swapping stories over the mundane task of shelling beans—in the grand oral tradition of Myśliwski’s celebrated Stone Upon Stone—each anecdote, lived experience, and memory accrues cross-stitched layers of meaning. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Treatise on Shelling Beans is an epic recounting of a life that, while universal, is anything but ordinary. From the Trade Paperback edition.
A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wieslaw Mysliwski is 376 pages long, and a total of 96,256 words.
This makes it 127% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 45 minutes to read A Treatise on Shelling Beans aloud.
A Treatise on Shelling Beans is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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