How long does it take to read Almond Blossoms and Beyond?
Almond Blossoms and Beyond by Mahmoud Darwish takes about 1 hour 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 45 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2005. 95 pages, about 26,125 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the Publisher: Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world. Composed of brief lyric poems and the magnificent sustained Exile cycle, Almond Blossoms holds an important place in Darwish's unparalleled oeuvre. It distills his late style, in which, though the specter of death looms and weddings turn to funerals, he threads the pulses and fragilities and beauties of life into the lines of his poems. Their liveliness is his own response to the collection's final call to bid "Farewell / Farewell, to the poetry of pain."
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), Arabic poetry, Poetry
