It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this sad tale from Haitian novelist Trouillot, siblings Colin and Marila, slum children of Port-au-Prince, live in fear of their violent father, Corazn-until the day they beat him to death to protect their mother, Josephine. In short chapters, each one long paragraph in length, Trouillot channels the desperate and sometimes disconnected, floating feelings of young, needy Colin as he and Marila, the elder at 16, flee the scene of the crime.
Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot is 172 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.
This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read Children of Heroes aloud.
Children of Heroes is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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