It takes the average reader 1 hour and 40 minutes to read The Face by Tahmima Anam
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
One of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists and winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Award, Bangladeshi-born author Tahmima Anam’s The Face: Third World Blues movingly explores the double binds placed on people who immigrate to the “developed” world. You arrive in America for the first time, a misfit on levels you cannot entirely grasp—if you could grasp them, you would not be the misfit you are. Your separateness comes to define you; you call it your “thirdliness.” You hope to overcome it, at first; soon you realize it is inescapable, and begin to question your desire...
The Face by Tahmima Anam is 100 pages long, and a total of 25,000 words.
This makes it 34% the length of the average book. It also has 31% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 16 minutes to read The Face aloud.
The Face is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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