How Long to Read The Swallows of Monte Cassino

How Long Does it Take to Read The Swallows of Monte Cassino?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 34 minutes to read The Swallows of Monte Cassino by Helena Janeczek

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

Description

This novel hinges on the battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, in World War II, covering the international contingents and their contribution to that victory. The four month long battle at Monte Cassino in southern Italy was one of the bloodiest in World War II. In this highly original novel, Janeczek retells that 1944 battle from the point of view of the Maori, Gurkha, Polish, North African, small-town American and other Allied foot soldiers who fought and died under German fire near that 6th century Benedictine abbey. Twined through the battle is another story, a memory of the drowned and the saved in Janeczek's own family in wartime Eastern Europe, where Jews who did not go to Nazi death camps went to Soviet gulag camps, and sometimes survived, and even went on to fight at Monte Cassino. A powerful reflection on all the ways that rights can be taken from us. "Helena Janeczek's novel is this: a tattoo etched on the skin, and not painlessly. A vast design that brings together threads from all the various lives that converged in that legendary battle. The beauty of her tale lies in its structure, the way opposites converge: the chaos of battle and the silence of the defeated, ordinariness and the heroism of the powerless, carefully guarded memory and impetuous youth, the past perpetually intertwined with the present." Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah

How long is The Swallows of Monte Cassino?

The Swallows of Monte Cassino by Helena Janeczek is 332 pages long, and a total of 83,664 words.

This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Swallows of Monte Cassino Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 37 minutes to read The Swallows of Monte Cassino aloud.

What Reading Level is The Swallows of Monte Cassino?

The Swallows of Monte Cassino 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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