How Long to Read Tales from Dayrut

How Long Does it Take to Read Tales from Dayrut?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 31 minutes to read Tales from Dayrut by Mohamed Mustagab

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

Description

This collection of fourteen connected stories and a novella, From the Secret History of Numan Abdel Hafez, takes us deep into Upper Egypt and the village of Dayrut al-Sharif, in which Mohamed Mustagab was born. To depict a world renowned for its poverty, ignorance, vendettas, and implacable code of honor, Mustagab deploys the black humor and Swiftian sarcasm of the insider who knows his society only too well. When the stillness of a day's end is shattered by a single gunshot, poignant beauty merges seamlessly into horror, and when a police officer seeking to unravel a murder finds himself with more body parts than he knows what to do with, violence tips as easily into farce. In counterpoint, the author's often surrealist imagination explores the mysteries of a landscape where seductive women haunt dusty paths and a man may find himself crushed like a worm beneath another's foot. Elsewhere, the horizons of 'my village' expand to include other countries (the author worked in the Arabian Peninsula for a number of years), where equally disastrous consequences follow on folly and self-delusion. Previously almost unknown in English, Mustagab's voice is both original and disturbing.

How long is Tales from Dayrut?

Tales from Dayrut by Mohamed Mustagab is 211 pages long, and a total of 52,961 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tales from Dayrut Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 49 minutes to read Tales from Dayrut aloud.

What Reading Level is Tales from Dayrut?

Tales from Dayrut is suitable for students ages 12 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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