About This Book
A stunning debut novel from an award-winning poet. Jakob Beer, traumatically orphaned as a young child during World War II, learns over his lifetime the power of language to destroy, omit, and obliterate, and also to restore, conjure and witness, as he comes to understand and experience the extent o...
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9h 22m
slow reader
180 WPM
6h 45m
average reader
250 WPM
4h 49m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 101,200 wordsπ
14 days at 30 min/day
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6 h 45 min
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Audiobook (1.5x)
7 h 30 min
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11 h 15 min
Audio 2x
5 h 37 min
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