It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read Butterfly's Shadow by Lee Langley
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Nagasaki, Japan, 1912: An American ship docks and Lieutenant Pinkerton goes ashore in search of women and wine. The Consul fixes him up with the penniless Butterfly. He lives with her in a paper house - and Butterfly falls in love with him. Inevitably, the time comes for Pinkerton's ship to sail, and he abandons her. When Pinkerton returns, he has a fiancee, an American. And Butterfly has a son, half Japanese, half American. Nagasaki, Japan, 1945: The atomic bomb. Butterfly's Shadow tells the story of Butterfly's child - snatched by Pinkerton's American fiancee, taken to the States, brought...
Butterfly's Shadow by Lee Langley is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.
This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 44 minutes to read Butterfly's Shadow aloud.
Butterfly's Shadow 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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