It takes the average reader 3 hours and 17 minutes to read Butterfly's Child by Harlan Hague
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A sequel of sorts to Giacomo Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly, this is the story of the child of U.S. Navy Lt. Pinkerton and Cio-Cio-san, the lieutenant's fifteen-year-old contract bride during his brief stationing in Nagasaki. Raised in the United States, Tom learns of his Japanese mother only at age twenty. He is troubled and goes to Japan to search for his Japanese soul. He finds love in Kyoto's Gion, but the ruthless industrialist who claims the young maiko as his prot�g� feels dishonored and declares that only their deaths will satisfy him.
Butterfly's Child by Harlan Hague is 194 pages long, and a total of 49,276 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 29 minutes to read Butterfly's Child aloud.
Butterfly's Child is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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