It takes the average reader 7 hours and 33 minutes to read The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gifted young surgeon, is desperately trying to forget the pain of a lost love that torments him as much as the mental scars he still bears from the civil war that has left an entire people with terrible secrets to keep. It...
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna is 445 pages long, and a total of 113,475 words.
This makes it 150% the length of the average book. It also has 139% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 20 minutes to read The Memory of Love aloud.
The Memory of Love is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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