How long does it take to read The Seamstress?
Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton, Marlene bernst Samuels, Edgar M. Bronfman, Marlene Bernstein Samuels
The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton, Marlene bernst Samuels, Edgar M. Bronfman, Marlene Bernstein Samuels takes about 6 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 353 pages, about 97,075 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher's vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him. After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women's concentration camp, and managed to survive. She tells this story with style and power.
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Biography, Courage, Jews, Personal narratives, Holocausts survivors
