It takes the average reader 2 hours and 51 minutes to read Heads Ripe for Plucking by Mahmoud Al-Wardani
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, "I see heads that are ripe for plucking." In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical torture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing one's head are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser's prisons,...
Heads Ripe for Plucking by Mahmoud Al-Wardani is 171 pages long, and a total of 42,921 words.
This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 54 minutes to read Heads Ripe for Plucking aloud.
Heads Ripe for Plucking is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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