How long does it take to read My Michael?
My Michael by Amos Oz takes about 4 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1968. 253 pages, about 69,575 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 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
`One should present the great and simple things, like desire and death.' These are the words of Amoz Oz who, in his early thirties, is one of the most original and highly regarded of the new Israeli writers. And nothing has done so much to establish his reputation as My Michael, his latest and most impressive novel. Set in modern Jerusalem, the story is narrated by Hannah Gonen, the wife of a geologist at the Hebrew University. Neither in her outward way of life nor in her relations with Michael, her husband, is she fulfilled. She withdraws into a private world of fantasies made up of her childhood memories and suppressed desires, a prison of isolation to which Michael has no access and from which he cannot release her. It is the contrast between Hannah's inward sense of alienation and the perfectly normal circumstances of her social life that the author portrays so percep-tively. The range of his imagination and the varied rhythms of his prose leave a powerful, disturbing impression which the reader will not easily forget.
Subjects: Hebrew fiction, Jerusalem, Fiction, romance, general, Ehe, Belletristische Darstellung, Barbecuing
