How Long to Read Anniversaries, Volume 1

How Long Does it Take to Read Anniversaries, Volume 1?

It takes the average reader 15 hours and 23 minutes to read Anniversaries, Volume 1 by Uwe Johnson

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

Description

The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times critics. Published to great acclaim as a two-part boxed set in 2018, Anniversaries is now available as two individual volumes. It is August 1967, and Gesine Cresspahl, born in Germany the year that Hitler came to power, a survivor of war, of Soviet occupation, and of East German Communism, has been living with her ten-year-old daughter, Marie, in New York City for six years. Mother and daughter find themselves caught up in the countless stories of the world around them: stories of work and school and their neighborhood, with its shifting and varied cast of characters, as well as the stories that Gesine reads in The New York Times every day—about Che Guevara, racial violence, the war in Vietnam, and the US elections to come. Now, with Marie growing up, Gesine has decided to tell her daughter the story of her own childhood in a small north German town in the 1930s and ’40s. Amid memories of Germany’s criminal and disastrous past and the daily barrage of news from a world in disarray, Gesine, conscientious, self-scrutinizing, with a sharp sense of humor, struggles to describe what she has learned over the years and what she hopes to pass on to Marie. Marie, articulate, quizzical, with a perspective that is very much her own, has plenty of questions, too. Uwe Johnson’s intimate portrait of a mother and daughter is also a panorama of past and present history and the world at large. Comparable in richness of invention and depth of feeling to Joyce’s Ulysses and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Anniversaries is one of the world’s great novels.

How long is Anniversaries, Volume 1?

Anniversaries, Volume 1 by Uwe Johnson is 913 pages long, and a total of 230,989 words.

This makes it 308% the length of the average book. It also has 282% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Anniversaries, Volume 1 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 21 hours and 2 minutes to read Anniversaries, Volume 1 aloud.

What Reading Level is Anniversaries, Volume 1?

Anniversaries, Volume 1 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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Where Can I Buy Anniversaries, Volume 1?

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