It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort’s Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology? Mort traces a route of devastation from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor...
Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort is 112 pages long, and a total of 28,224 words.
This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read Music for the Dead and Resurrected aloud.
Music for the Dead and Resurrected is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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