How Long to Read Pleasure: a Novel in Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read Pleasure: a Novel in Stories?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 7 minutes to read Pleasure: a Novel in Stories by Eva Marer

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

Description

Mimis mother is the German daughter of a reluctant Third Reich infantry conscript. Her father is the Hungarian Jewish son of concentration camp survivors. Haunted by ghosts from their ravaged European past, the family settles in the arcadia of a Midwestern American suburb where, no matter what they do, they will never quite fit in. In Eva Marers posthumous novel, the eerily sensitive child narrators navigation of three cultures American, German and Hungarian is complicated by her capacity to remember things she herself never lived. Among Marers papers was this description of the book: History demands that we never forget, and yet we have forgotten. But some remember what they have never seen. This is the conundrum faced by the novel's seven-year-old protagonist, Mimi, who, as the narrative opens, is unable even to articulate her conflict: What is it to live a memory that is not your own? In a strikingly original take on the classic immigrant tale, love infuses history in such a way that, rather than being blunted or subdued with time, it takes on new life in the febrile mind of a overly imaginative child whose impassioned empathy for her father makes her feel his past suffering even more fervently than her own.

How long is Pleasure: a Novel in Stories?

Pleasure: a Novel in Stories by Eva Marer is 125 pages long, and a total of 31,875 words.

This makes it 42% the length of the average book. It also has 39% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Pleasure: a Novel in Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 54 minutes to read Pleasure: a Novel in Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is Pleasure: a Novel in Stories?

Pleasure: a Novel in Stories is suitable for students ages 10 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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