It takes the average reader 2 hours to read Tata by Aurora Costanzo
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In the first decades of the last century, New York was for Italians the city of occasions, where ten thousand foreigners landed every day. Raffaele is among these, his is a journey of fortune begun by a small village of Calabria, Rocca di Neto, from where he left to follow his love Micuzza, who moved to America to follow his family. With an agile and secure pen, Aurora Costanzo tells us a family history of the time that was, to be handed down to posterity; a novel with genuine and extraordinary flavors and colors, which bears witness to the ethical and biological force of memory, through the detailed narration of the habits of life and traditions of the rural and peasant world. The protagonist of the novel is Tata, the father of Raffaele. It is he who, as a simple man, must try to understand the meaning of what life has reserved for him and for others, and try to give meaning to the painful events that are not lacking in history. The elegiac tone of the writer makes this character almost a modern Ulysses, together with a witness and veteran, who can teach others because it is wiser: the Tata is the perfect mirror of an ancient microcosm that disappears that can communicate a vision of the man from do not lose.
Tata by Aurora Costanzo is 120 pages long, and a total of 30,000 words.
This makes it 40% the length of the average book. It also has 37% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 43 minutes to read Tata aloud.
Tata is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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