It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read A Leaf In The Bitter Wind by Ting-Xing Ye
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye’s riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1974). In the wave of revolutionary fervour, peasants neglected their crops, exacerbating the widespread hunger. While Ting-Xing was a young girl in Shanghai, her father’s rubber factory was expropriated by the state, and he was demoted to a labourer. A botched operation left him paralyzed from the waist down, and...
A Leaf In The Bitter Wind by Ting-Xing Ye is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.
This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read A Leaf In The Bitter Wind aloud.
A Leaf In The Bitter Wind is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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