The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Published 2012 · 129 pages · 35,662 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is The Buddha in the Attic to read?
The Buddha in the Attic scores 56 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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.
- Vocabulary: 50 out of 100
- Simple, collective.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Otsuka's choral prose.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Immigration, identity.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Japanese immigration.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- Collective "we" voice.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Buddha, attic.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Collective witness.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Internment coming.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Choral structure.
How The Buddha in the Attic is regarded
The Buddha in the Attic holds a literary regard score of 70 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.