How Long to Read Mrs. Shaw

How Long Does it Take to Read Mrs. Shaw?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Mrs. Shaw by Mukoma Wa Ngugi

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

Description

In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation’s exiles are preparing to return. One of these exiles, a young man named Kalumba, is a graduate student in the United States, where he encounters Mrs. Shaw, a professor emerita and former British settler who fled Kwatee’s postcolonial political and social turmoil. Kalumba’s girlfriend, too, is an exile: a Puerto Rican nationalist like her imprisoned father, she is an outcast from the island. Brought together by a history of violence and betrayals, all three are seeking a way of regaining their humanity, connecting with each other, and learning to make a life in a new land. Kalumba and Mrs. Shaw, in particular, are linked by a past rooted in colonial and postcolonial violence, yet they are separated by their differing accounts of what really happened. The memory of each is subject to certain lapses, whether selective or genuine. Even when they agree on the facts—be they acts of love, of betrayal, or of violence—each narrator shapes the story in his or her own way, by what is left in and what is left out, by what is remembered and what is forgotten.

How long is Mrs. Shaw?

Mrs. Shaw by Mukoma Wa Ngugi is 261 pages long, and a total of 65,511 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Mrs. Shaw Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 57 minutes to read Mrs. Shaw aloud.

What Reading Level is Mrs. Shaw?

Mrs. Shaw 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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