How Long to Read We Are Made of Earth

How Long Does it Take to Read We Are Made of Earth?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read We Are Made of Earth by Panos Karnezis

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

Description

From the heart-in-mouth opening scene to its melancholy ending, We are Made of Earth is a skilled blend of seductive linguistic simplicity and luminous moral depth. In Karnezis' confident hands, a timely story of refugee arrival on a foreign shore—a prismatic exploration of the moral and emotional price those leaving their homeland must pay for peace and security—is transformed into a timeless narrative of connection and disorientation, longing and self-doubt. With Karnezis' trademark 'details catching like splinters in that part of the imagination that responds to pure storytelling' (TLS), We are Made of Earth opens when an overcrowded dinghy capsizes at sea. A doctor is among the refugees thrown overboard. In the panic, he saves one life and condemns another. The doctor and the boy he saves—the only witness to the crime—wash up on a tiny Greek island where they are offered shelter by the owner of a small travelling circus. Debt-ridden, the circus owner has just one asset: an Asian elephant, far from her natural habitat but lovingly tended by the owner's wife even as she mourns their young daughter. As the two refugees await an endlessly deferred ferry to continue their journey, the displaced elephant becomes both symbolic and substantial, and the unfortunate catalyst for precisely the kinds of misunderstandings and misinterpretations that regularly drown lives. At once timely and timeless, this powerful and absorbing novel by Panos Karnezis explores the price of peace and security through the intimate motivations and moral dilemmas of people bound together by fate and circumstance.

How long is We Are Made of Earth?

We Are Made of Earth by Panos Karnezis is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read We Are Made of Earth Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read We Are Made of Earth aloud.

What Reading Level is We Are Made of Earth?

We Are Made of Earth is suitable for students ages 10 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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