It takes the average reader 2 hours to read Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literature Prize, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland In the days leading up to Christmas, Dómhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother’s side and a long line of undertakers on her father’s. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Dómhildur discovers decades worth of letters and manuscripts hidden amongst her grandaunt’s clutter. Fielding calls from her anxious meteorologist sister and visits from her curious new neighbour, Dómhildur escapes into her grandaunt’s archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. With her singular warmth and humor, in Animal Life Ólafsdóttir gives us a beguiling novel that comes direct from the depths of an Icelandic winter, full of hope for spring.
Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir is 120 pages long, and a total of 30,000 words.
This makes it 40% the length of the average book. It also has 37% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 43 minutes to read Animal Life aloud.
Animal Life is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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