It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops by Hanan al-Shaykh
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Since the U.S. publication of Women of Sand and Myrrh--which has now sold more than 35,000 copies and was selected as one of the Fifty Best Books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly--Hanan al-Shaykh has attracted an ever larger following for her dazzling tales of contemporary Arab women. In these seventeen short stories--eleven of which are appearing in English for the first time--al-Shaykh expands her horizons beyond the boundaries of Lebanon, taking us throughout the Middle East, to Africa, and finally to London. Stylistically diverse, her stories are often about the shifting and ambiguous power...
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops by Hanan al-Shaykh is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops aloud.
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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