About This Book
Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-dem...
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Reading Time Estimates
6h 42m
slow reader
180 WPM
4h 49m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 27m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 72,325 words📅 10 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
4 h 49 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
5 h 21 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
8 h 2 min
Audio 2x
4 h 1 min
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- 📅10 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇10 commutes of 30 min each