How Long to Read Taravad

How Long Does it Take to Read Taravad?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Taravad by Vijay Poolakkal

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

Description

An eight year old boy decides to kill his uncle, the despotic patriarch of his taravad (ancestral home), when he hears that his uncle is scheming another marriage for his mother, replacing his father, with a virile Brahmin. The patriarch wanted a girl child born in the family for continuance of lineage, and believes that sleeping with the Brahmin would give the woman a daughter. The boy's father does not find anything wrong in sparing his wife to an old Brahmin and argues that scriptures have command that a woman should gratify a Brahmin's wish if he desires to spend a few hours with her! The boy later finds out that the kingpin behind patriarch's decision is none other than their cunning personal assistant. He waits for an opportune moment to kill that rat first. However, the boy could not execute his scheme and the marriage takes place but that alliance lasted only for a few days. The boy's mother is found dead a week later. The patriarch finds himself in a dilemma since the property of the family without a female heir would go to the chieftain of the village. The assistant counsels the patriarch to adopt an orphan girl to surmount the law of inheritance. It angers the boy since this alternative could have been taken in the first instance without sending his mother to death. The boy then vows to kill all those responsible for his mother's death even if it takes many years. Some months later the patriarch dies of snake poison, and the boy realises that there are others who wanted to do away with the patriarch, but could not find out who. When he became a young man, their servant maid, twenty years senior, seduces him and teaches him the basic tenets of love. The young man takes up a job at the chieftain's house where he chances upon the attractive wife of his employer and promptly falls in love with her. Someone notices their love rendezvous and reports the matter to the king. The village noblemen conduct a caste trial but the woman refuses to reveal the name of her lover, and she is cast out of the village to be whisked away by unknown Arab traders. Distraught, the young man leaves the job and joins the police department where he finds he has to employ brute force to extract confession, and quits when an innocent man dies during one such interrogation. His superior officer, however, recommends the young man for a job in a tea estate owned by a British company. The loneliness and the frosty weather in the mountain region prompts the young man to marry a neighbourhood girl who turns out to be more frigid than the climate. Later the man opts for a transfer to a cardamom estate where he is drawn into the world of sexual perversity by his estate supervisor. Luckily, he realises that this life is not what he has bargained for. When the young man visits his home a few months later he learns that his nephew, who got possession of the family property by treachery, has sold ancestral house and the family's vast property after driving out everyone from the land. The family disintegrates. On the top of it, a murder takes place. Their old personal assistant ultimately meets his death. The young man's half-sister, now matriarch of the family, reminds him that family means love, integrity and intimacy, and he should try to bring the old taravad (ancestral home) to its past glory.The man then wakes up from the stupor and decides to act to bring everyone together once again in the taravad.

How long is Taravad?

Taravad by Vijay Poolakkal is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Taravad Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Taravad aloud.

What Reading Level is Taravad?

Taravad 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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