It takes the average reader and 49 minutes to read The Twenty-Seventh Man by Nathan Englander
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The setting is a Soviet prison, 1952. Joseph Stalin's secret police have rounded up twenty-six writers, the giants of Yiddish literature in Russia. As judgment looms, a twenty-seventh suddenly appears: Pinchas Pelovits, unpublished and unknown. Baffled by his arrest, he and his cellmates wrestle with the mysteries of party loyalty and politics, culture and identity, and with what it means to write in troubled times. When they discover why the twenty-seventh man is among them, the writers come to realize that even in the face of tyranny, stories still have the power to transcend. In his last...
The Twenty-Seventh Man by Nathan Englander is 48 pages long, and a total of 12,384 words.
This makes it 16% the length of the average book. It also has 15% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 7 minutes to read The Twenty-Seventh Man aloud.
The Twenty-Seventh Man is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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