How long does it take to read Upon the Head of the Goat?
Aranka Siegal
Upon the Head of the Goat by Aranka Siegal takes about 3 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1968. 213 pages, about 58,575 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
Subjects: Aranka Siegal, Biography, Childhood and youth, Ethnic relations, Jews, Personal narratives
