It takes the average reader 3 hours and 12 minutes to read The Little Girl and the Cigarette by Benoît Duteurtre
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A wicked satire about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything. In the over-legislated world of this outrageous black comedy, a death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media-- and the tobacco conglomerates--after he demands his right to a final cigarette . . . in a smoke-free prison. Meanwhile, a little girl accuses a petty municipal bureaucrat of sexual perversion when she catches him sneaking a cigarette. Incredulously, he realizes that in this world where children are not just kings, but tyrants, a cigarette could lead him to the electric chair. At the cutting edge of...
The Little Girl and the Cigarette by Benoît Duteurtre is 187 pages long, and a total of 48,059 words.
This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 22 minutes to read The Little Girl and the Cigarette aloud.
The Little Girl and the Cigarette is suitable for students ages 10 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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