It takes the average reader 11 hours and 11 minutes to read Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to...
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie is 656 pages long, and a total of 167,936 words.
This makes it 221% the length of the average book. It also has 205% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 17 minutes to read Joseph Anton aloud.
Joseph Anton is suitable for students ages 12 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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