Reading Time
6 hrs 50 mins
How long to read From These Broken Streets: A Novel?
The estimated word count of From These Broken Streets: A Novel is 102,300 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 6 hrs 50 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 22 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 48 mins.
| From These Broken Streets: A Novel - 102,300 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 11 hrs 22 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 6 hrs 50 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 48 mins |
- Authors
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Roland Merullo
More about From These Broken Streets: A Novel
102,300 words
Word Count
for From These Broken Streets: A Novel
364 pages
Pages
11 hours
Audiobook length
Description
Roland Merullo, bestselling author of Once Night Falls, returns with a galvanizing historical novel of Nazi-occupied Naples and the rage and resistance of a people under siege.Italy, 1943. The Nazi occupation has cemented its grip on the devastated city of Naples.Giuseppe DiPietra, a curator in the National Archives, has a subversive plan to aid the Allies. If he’s discovered, forced labor or swift execution. Lucia Pastone, secretary for the Italian Fascist government, is risking her own life in secret defiance of orders. And Lucia’s father, Aldo, is a black marketeer who draws Giuseppe and Lucia into the underworld—for their protection and to help plant the seeds of resistance. Their fates are soon intertwined with those of Aldo’s devoted lover and a boy of the streets who’ll do anything to live another day. And all of Naples is about to join forces to overcome impossible odds and repel the Nazi occupiers.Inspired by a true historic uprising, From These Broken Streets is a richly layered novel of the extraordinary daring of ordinary people whose bonds of love, family, and unfaltering courage could not be broken.