How Long to Read The Perfection of Things

How Long Does it Take to Read The Perfection of Things?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read The Perfection of Things by Peter Nash

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

Description

In 1941, the popular Austrian Jewish writer, Stefan Zweig, with his young wife, Lotte Altmann, went into hiding from the Nazis in Brazil, where less than six months later they committed suicide in a final act of despair. The Perfection of Things is a novel that opens in February of 2004 in the Brazilian town of Petrópolis where a dying American biographer, Adam Ribeira, has been living in a last, desperate effort to complete a critical biography of Zweig, which he has been writing in frustration and anguish for nearly twenty years. Working by day in a rented apartment directly overlooking the now-empty house in which Zweig and his wife committed suicide, and by night inside the house itself, into which he sneaks the moment it is dark, the narrator struggles, once and for all, to grasp the tangled implications of Zweig and his times, a realization that finally compels him to act. Part fiction, part biography of Zweig, part critical inquiry into the scope and limitations of biography itself, the novel explores what for many is the essential impossibility of truly knowing another human being. Framed in the form of a letter to the narrator's estranged son in Israel, in the form of a tzevaah, a Jewish ethical will, the story is also a meditation on contemporary life-on racism, exile, and war. Binding the tale together is the perennially bewitching idea of perfection and its place in the human heart.

How long is The Perfection of Things?

The Perfection of Things by Peter Nash is 210 pages long, and a total of 52,500 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Perfection of Things Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 46 minutes to read The Perfection of Things aloud.

What Reading Level is The Perfection of Things?

The Perfection of Things 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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