It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence? Each of the seven stories in Assia Djebar’s The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry reaches into the void where normal and impossible realities coexist. All the stories were written in 1995 and 1996—a time when, by official accounts, some two hundred thousand Algerians were killed in Islamist assassinations and government army reprisals. Each story grew from a real conversation on the streets of Paris between the author and fellow Algerians about what was happening in their native land. Contemporary events are joined on the page by...
The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry aloud.
The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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