How Long to Read A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

How Long Does it Take to Read A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 46 minutes to read A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Melissa Muller

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimised. In 1942, Alice's mother was deported. Desperately unhappy, she resolved to learn Chopin's 24 Etudes - the most technically demanding piano pieces she knew - and the complex but beautiful music saved her sanity. A year later, she, too - together with her husband and their six-year-old son - was deported to a concentration camp. But even in Theresienstadt, music was her salvation and in the course of more than a hundred concerts she gave her fellow-prisoners hope in a world of pain and death. This is her remarkable story, but it is also the story of a mother's struggle to create a happy childhood for her beloved only son in the midst of atrocity and barbarism. Of 15,000 children sent to the camp, Raphael was one of the 130 who survived. Today, Alice Herz-Sommer lives in London and she still plays the piano every day.

How long is A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer?

A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Melissa Muller is 456 pages long, and a total of 116,736 words.

This makes it 154% the length of the average book. It also has 143% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 37 minutes to read A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer aloud.

What Reading Level is A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer?

A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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