It takes the average reader 2 hours and 31 minutes to read The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
“The Wedding of Zein” unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih’s tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic. Zein is the village idiot, and everyone in the village is dumbfounded when the news goes around that he will be getting married—Zein the freak, Zein who burst into laughter the moment he was born and has kept women and children laughing ever since, Zein who lost all his teeth at six and whose face is completely hairless, Zein...
The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih is 147 pages long, and a total of 37,779 words.
This makes it 50% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 26 minutes to read The Wedding of Zein aloud.
The Wedding of Zein is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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