It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read My Mother, My Translator by Jaspreet Singh
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 2008, Jaspreet Singh made a pact with his mother. He would gladly give her the go-ahead to publish her significantly altered translation of a story from his collection, Seventeen Tomatoes, if she promised to write her memoirs. After she died in 2012, he decided to take up the memoir she had started. My Mother, My Translator is a deeply personal exploration of a complex relationship. It is a family history, a work of mourning, a meditation on storytelling and silences, and a reckoning with trauma--the inherited trauma of the 1947 Partition of India and the direct trauma of the November 1984...
My Mother, My Translator by Jaspreet Singh is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read My Mother, My Translator aloud.
My Mother, My Translator is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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