It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Set in 1920s’ Ceylon, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, this evocative story of intertwined lives takes us behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Colombo to reveal a world of splintered families, conflicted passions, and lives destroyed by class hatred. Annalukshmi, a spirited young schoolteacher, finds herself caught between her family’s pressures to marry and her own desire for a more independent life. Then there is her uncle Balendran, whose comfortable life of privilege is rocked by the arrival of Richard, a lover...
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Cinnamon Gardens aloud.
Cinnamon Gardens is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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