How Long to Read Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul

How Long Does it Take to Read Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul?

It takes the average reader 8 hours to read Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King

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

Description

“Timely . . . brilliant . . . hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched and deeply absorbing.”—Jason Goodwin, New York Times Book Review At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul—an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city—people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs—a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne’er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests. In beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.

How long is Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul?

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King is 480 pages long, and a total of 120,000 words.

This makes it 162% the length of the average book. It also has 147% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 55 minutes to read Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul aloud.

What Reading Level is Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul?

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul 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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