It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white. In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India's cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel's astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its...
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.
This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Burnt Shadows aloud.
Burnt Shadows 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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