It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
During the Second World War, the Japanese government stirred the people to support its war effort with the image of ‘One hundred million hearts beating as one human bullet to defeat the enemy.’ Kerri Sakamoto, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Japan-Canada Literary Award for her first novel The Electrical Field, draws on this wartime propaganda in her second novel as she casts light on a fascinating figure from wartime Japan: the kamikaze pilot. These devout young men offered their lives to fly planes into enemy artillery; both human sacrifice and deadly weapon. A cherry...
One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read One Hundred Million Hearts aloud.
One Hundred Million Hearts is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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