How Long to Read Unthinkable Tenderness

How Long Does it Take to Read Unthinkable Tenderness?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 31 minutes to read Unthinkable Tenderness by Juan Gelman

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

Description

Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. In 2000, he received the Juan Rulfo Award, one most important literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world, and in 2007, he received the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary prize. With this selection, chosen and superbly translated by Joan Lindgren, Gelman's lush and visceral poetry comes alive for an English-speaking readership. Gelman is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild were "disappeared"). While political idealism infuses his writing, he is not a servant of ideology. Themes of family, exile, the tango, Argentina, and Gelman's Jewish heritage resonate throughout his poems, works that celebrate life while confronting heartache and loss. "remembering their little bones when it rains/ the compañerosstomp on darkness/set forth from death/wander the tender night/I hear their voices like living faces"—from Remembering Their Little Bones

How long is Unthinkable Tenderness?

Unthinkable Tenderness by Juan Gelman is 211 pages long, and a total of 52,961 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Unthinkable Tenderness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 49 minutes to read Unthinkable Tenderness aloud.

What Reading Level is Unthinkable Tenderness?

Unthinkable Tenderness 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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