How Long to Read Tractorina's Travels

How Long Does it Take to Read Tractorina's Travels?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 32 minutes to read Tractorina's Travels by Marina Sonkina

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

Description

Marina Sonkina's stories give us unexpected characters in surreal situations presented with unflinching verisimilitude in prose that is at once forceful, lyrical and filled with scepticism. We follow an old woman through the Gorbachev days of perestroika in Moscow into a rose-tinted abyss. A philandering Parisian American linguist married to a Belgian tapestry weaver conducts an affair on the Pacific Coast of America and discovers that the only human being he can love is a blind boy. A Californian flower-child swings her mini-skirted hips through an island ashram in the Bahamas - because she can, to demonstrate the healing power of (free) love, and without the slightest idea of the upheaval she causes. In Stalinist Moscow, a woman gives birth in a hospital Franz Kafka and George Orwell would both sadly recognize as all too real. This is not the stuff of European fiction, nor of the multicultural mainstream in North America post-20th century writing. This is more like Mavis Gallant in reverse, a shrewdly observant fictive sensibility self-transplanted to the New World from the old. The fact that English is Sonkina's most recent language (after Russian, Italian, and French) gives her writing the linguistic piquancy of a fusion cuisine. These stories don't taste like borscht or pea soup. They taste like fillets of elk in a hot paprika sauce.

How long is Tractorina's Travels?

Tractorina's Travels by Marina Sonkina is 207 pages long, and a total of 53,199 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tractorina's Travels Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Tractorina's Travels aloud.

What Reading Level is Tractorina's Travels?

Tractorina's Travels 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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