How Long to Read An Ordinary Youth

How Long Does it Take to Read An Ordinary Youth?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 2 minutes to read An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother’s jazz records, his father’s fluctuating moods, and his mother’s ministrations and anxieties. While Walter is absorbed by his private life, the extraordinary accumulation of contemporary idioms that accompany his point of view—dialogue, song, literary quotations, commercials, and political slogans—tell a different story. Through this echo chamber of voices, Kempowski shows a hugely turbulent and murderously intolerant nation racing toward disaster. An immediate bestseller when it was first published in Germany in 1971 (as Tadellöser & Wolff) and the best known of Kempowski's novels in Germany, An Ordinary Youth is now available in English for the first time.

How long is An Ordinary Youth?

An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski is 481 pages long, and a total of 120,731 words.

This makes it 162% the length of the average book. It also has 148% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read An Ordinary Youth Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 59 minutes to read An Ordinary Youth aloud.

What Reading Level is An Ordinary Youth?

An Ordinary Youth is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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