Der Pate by Mario Puzo
Published 2001 · 639 pages · 175,725 words · about 12 hours at an average pace
How hard is Der Pate to read?
Der Pate scores 50 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
Where the story of Der Pate takes place
- New York & Sicily, late 1940s–early 1950s (1945 to 1955), the main setting