It takes the average reader 5 hours and 12 minutes to read Paradise in Ashes by Beatriz Manz
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Manz, an anthropologist, spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala. In a political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s, Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and...
Paradise in Ashes by Beatriz Manz is 311 pages long, and a total of 78,061 words.
This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 6 minutes to read Paradise in Ashes aloud.
Paradise in Ashes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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