How Long to Read Your Absence is Darkness

How Long Does it Take to Read Your Absence is Darkness?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 33 minutes to read Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson

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

Description

"Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, TLS "A rich depiction of life, love and loss . . . Stefánsson is a writer of great scope and imagination" RONAN HESSION "Stefánsson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour" BOYD TONKIN, Spectator A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most celebrated novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realises he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn't recognise either woman, and as their stories unfold, he is plunged into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a farmer's wife whose essay on the humble earthworm changes the course of lives; a pastor who writes to dead poets and falls in love with a stranger; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness, who discovers that his life has been a lie; and an alcoholic transfixed by the night sky. Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. An incandescent, audacious novel about the misfortune of mortality and the strange salve of time, Your Absence is Darkness is a spellbinding story of death, desire and the perfect agony of star-crossed love. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

How long is Your Absence is Darkness?

Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson is 498 pages long, and a total of 128,484 words.

This makes it 168% the length of the average book. It also has 157% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Your Absence is Darkness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 42 minutes to read Your Absence is Darkness aloud.

What Reading Level is Your Absence is Darkness?

Your Absence is Darkness 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.

Where Can I Buy Your Absence is Darkness?

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