It takes the average reader 4 hours and 58 minutes to read Bittersweet Victory by Jeannette Solomon
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
TORONTO - BUCHAREST - ISRAEL and ISTANBUL...Evelyn and Michel's story begins in Istanbul during the peaceful years of 1920s, but a lovers' quarrel sends Evelyn to work in Bucharest. By the time she is ready to return, W.W. II erupts and she is stuck in Bucharest. She marries the young Russian Jew who had pursued her relentlessly since her arrival, but happiness is not for long as tragedy strikes when Nazi officers abduct her husband and he disappears. Left alone through the war years she struggles to survive, striving to make a meager living and raise her daughter. After the war, she manages to immigrate to Israel where her daughter thrives among the young in the new atmosphere of freedom and self-reliance. Evelyn, however, does not adjust to the Israeli lifestyle and longing for her home in Istanbul, she decides to return, after an absence of over twenty years. Here she meets Michel again and love is rekindled, but Evelyn cannot rest until she has avenged her departed husband. She conceives an elaborate scheme on her husband's disappearance, convincing the German authorities of her entitlement to compensation. She ultimately succeeds, but at a price! Interwoven stories take us through war and destruction, personal loss and perilous emigration. Ultimately, it is the story Evelyn and Michel who at middle age find love and a renewed lust for life. ISTANBUL,how she yearned to return to her home town, the Bosphorus and to swim in the azure waters of the Marmara.
Bittersweet Victory by Jeannette Solomon is 294 pages long, and a total of 74,676 words.
This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 48 minutes to read Bittersweet Victory aloud.
Bittersweet Victory is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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