How Long to Read The Turncoat

How Long Does it Take to Read The Turncoat?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 32 minutes to read The Turncoat by Siegfried Lenz

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

Description

“Never has the aftermath for Germans been better depicted than in Siegfried Lenz’s elegiac, The Turncoat. A newly discovered masterpiece.” —Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Avenue of Spies Previously unpublished, this German postwar classic is one of the best books of this major writer, who died in 2014. The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest on the border with Ukraine and Byelorussia. In this swampy region, a handful of men—stunned by the heat, attacked by mosquitoes, and abandoned by their own troops in the face of the resistance—must also submit to the increasingly absurd and inhuman orders of their superior. Time passes, and the soldiers isolate themselves, haunted by madness and the desire for death. An encounter with a young Polish partisan, Wanda, makes Proska further doubt the validity of his oath of allegiance, and he seeks to answer the questions that obsess him: When conscience and duty clash, which is more important? Is it possible to take any action without becoming guilty in some way? And where is Wanda, this woman from the resistance he can’t forget? Written in 1951, The Turncoat is Siegfried Lenz’s second novel. Rejected by his publisher, who thought that the story of a German soldier defecting to the Soviet side would be unwelcome in the context of the Cold War, the manuscript was forgotten for nearly seventy years before being rediscovered after the author’s death. A posthumous triumph.

How long is The Turncoat?

The Turncoat by Siegfried Lenz is 385 pages long, and a total of 98,175 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 120% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Turncoat Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 56 minutes to read The Turncoat aloud.

What Reading Level is The Turncoat?

The Turncoat 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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