How Long to Read Silent Life: Memoirs of a Writer

How Long Does it Take to Read Silent Life: Memoirs of a Writer?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Silent Life: Memoirs of a Writer by Chaman Nahal

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

Description

From the small town of Sialkot in pre-Partition Punjab, through the bustling streets of Delhi, to the scholarly environs of Cambridge and the bistros of Turin - Chaman Nahal walks us gently through his life. A life rich in literary scholarship and discipline, but equally in humour and a cynical eye capable of looking as critically at himself as at the follies and foibles of other human beings. If his 'Rules' for subjects as varied as writing a full-length book while coping with a fulltime job, fighting depression or even addiction to drink, bring a smile to one's lips, his achievements as writer, teacher and litterateur, often in the face of great odds, can only induce respect. Nahal's delightfully candid accounts of his encounters with Nirad Chaudhuri, the great Sir Vidia, Manohar Malgonkar and others; his diatribes against the tardiness and indiscipline that marks so much of 21st century India; and his frank appraisal of the trials and tribulations he has faced as an Indian writer in English, both at home and abroad, make this a memoir significant in today's literary context, as well as an absorbing cameo of an earlier time and place.

How long is Silent Life: Memoirs of a Writer?

Silent Life: Memoirs of a Writer by Chaman Nahal is 259 pages long, and a total of 67,081 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Silent Life: Memoirs of a Writer Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Silent Life: Memoirs of a Writer aloud.

What Reading Level is Silent Life: Memoirs of a Writer?

Silent Life: Memoirs of a Writer is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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