How Long to Read Hunger

How Long Does it Take to Read Hunger?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read Hunger by Amr̥talāla Nāgara

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

Description

Amritlal Nagar, Considered The Doyen Among Hindi Novelists Today, Wrote Bhookh (Hunger) Way Back In 1946, Provoked By The War Time Famine In Pre-Partition Bengal. Since Then, It Has Been Hailed By Readers And Critics Alike As A Modern Classic Of Hindi Literature. The Novel Is Centred Round Panchu Gopal Mukherjee, The Headmaster Of A Village School, Which He Himself Had Built And Maintained. It Is Through The Eyes, Feelings, Thoughts And Memories Of Mukherjee That The Horrors Of The Great Famine Are Delineated. The Village Is Getting Slowly Deserted With The Living Skeletons Slowly Migrating In All Directions And Slowly Dying On The Roadside. Hunger Is Ravishing The Land With Predatory Birds And Animals Gorging On Dead Bodies. Yet The Local Zamindar And The Leading Trader Are Least Affected. In Fact, They Are Thriving, Helping The War Effort And Co-Operating With Local Authorities. Mukherjee Himself Is Reduced To Penury, Wondering Whether To Sell Off The Few Ornaments Left In The House Or The Furniture Of His Beloved School. He Sees All Round Unbearable Sights His Brother Misbehaving With His Own Wife, The Carpenter S Widow Selling Her Body, The Zamindar Revelling In Drinks, A Food Riot Being Quenched By The Police, The Trader Arranging A Feast For Brahmins To Wipe Out His Sins And The Hungry Fighting With Dogs And Scraping The Food From The Discarded Banana Leaves. The Novel, Yet, Ends With Hope, When Mukherjee Picks Up A Newly Delivered Child, Whose Mother Has Fallen Dead And The Life Force Had Ejected The Child Out Of The Womb. He Wrenches The Umbilical Cord And Takes The Child Home, Where His Family Members Are Dead Or Dispersed. Only His Starving Wide-Eyed Wife Mangala Is There Intrigued But Happy By The New Arrival.

How long is Hunger?

Hunger by Amr̥talāla Nāgara 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.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hunger Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read Hunger aloud.

What Reading Level is Hunger?

Hunger is suitable for students ages 10 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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