How long does it take to read An Ordinary Man?
Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner, Rusesabagina, Paul, Zoellner, Tom, María Luz García de la Hoz
An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner, Rusesabagina, Paul, Zoellner, Tom, María Luz García de la Hoz takes about 4 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 252 pages, about 69,300 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
'I still don't understand why those men in the militias didn't just put a bullet in my head and execute every last person in the rooms upstairs but they didn't. I survived to tell the story, along with those I sheltered. There was nothing particularly heroic about it...' Paul Rusesabagina was an ordinary man – a quiet manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda. But on 6 April 1994 mobs with machetes turned into cold-blooded murderers, and commenced a slaughter of 800,000 civilians in just 100 days. Rusesabagina, with incredible courage, saved the lives of 1,200 people. In this powerfully moving autobiography Rusesabagina tells his story and explores the complexity of Rwanda's history and the insanity that turned neighbours and friends into killers.
Subjects: Refugees, Civilian relief, Genocide, Human rights workers, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
