How Long to Read Shavlan

How Long Does it Take to Read Shavlan?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Shavlan by Eunice Blecker

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Shavlan - A Woman's Journey to Independence. A biographical novel based on a true story. Sarah Taube cowers in the bakery cellar clutching her three children, listening to the sounds of shooting by the White Cossacks during a pogrom. In order to survive, she enters into a bargain with the ruthless Commissar, Dimitri, an orthodox Jew transformed by tragedy into a high-ranking Bolshevik. Will Dimitri be able to protect Sarah Taube and her family? Will Sarah Taube be reunited with her wanderlust husband who leaves for South Africa to seek his fortune and find himself, and will she realize her life long dream to go to America? Little does Sarah Taube realize as she stands at the train tracks with her children, how much her life is going to change. This family saga is based on true events in the life of the author's maternal grandmother spanning three continents and five decades. It tells of a woman's journey to independence, while living through World War I, deportation from her village in Lithuania, the Russian Revolution, the Civil War and Lithuanian independence. As the story unfolds, the reader is witness to the struggles of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and the strategies they use in coping with Tsarist rule and the anti-Semitic society governing them. Some acquiesce, trying to adapt, some oppose the Tsar by joining revolutionary groups, and others by emigrating. The author weaves a matrix of emotions and ideas into her characters as they move in and out of her grandmother's life. We learn how an uneducated, na�ve young girl, raised in Shavlan, a Lithuanian shtetl, becomes an independent, strong-willed and forceful woman, schooled in the ways of the world--her education obtained by being a witness and participant in world-shaking events.

How long is Shavlan?

Shavlan by Eunice Blecker is 376 pages long, and a total of 96,256 words.

This makes it 127% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Shavlan Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 45 minutes to read Shavlan aloud.

What Reading Level is Shavlan?

Shavlan 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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