How long does it take to read 1Q84?
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami takes about 16 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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A long haul
First published 2009. 925 pages, about 254,375 words.
34 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 28 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 42 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in Tokyo during a fictionalized 1984, 1Q84 follows two protagonists in alternating storylines. Aomame, a thirty-year-old woman who carries out carefully chosen killings for a secretive organization, steps off a taxi onto a stalled expressway and finds herself in a world that looks like her own but is subtly different, with two moons in the sky. Tengo, an unpublished novelist and math tutor, is asked by an editor to rewrite a teenage girl's strange manuscript. Both are drawn toward a religious cult called Sakigake and toward each other, childhood acquaintances searching for what is real.
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Subjects: Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Dystopian, Magical Realism, Literary, Authors
