About This Book
Towards the end of World War II, a Belarusian soldier and an Italian girl escape from a Nazi concentration camp. The soldier wonders if he should get rid of the girl; she is a burden and is slowing him down. However, he cannot bring himself to abandon her in the snowy wilderness. Somewhere along the...
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Reading Time Estimates
5h 15m
slow reader
180 WPM
3h 47m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 42m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 56,650 wordsπ
8 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
3 h 47 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
4 h 12 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
6 h 18 min
Audio 2x
3 h 9 min
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- π 8 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
- π8 commutesΒ of 30 min each