How long does it take to read A Golden Age?
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam takes about 5 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Bengal Trilogy
Next: The Good Muslim
About 5 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 289 pages, about 79,475 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming; her children are almost grown-up; and beyond their doorstep, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air. But none of the guests at Rehana's party can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country on the brink of war. And this family's life is about to change for ever.
Subjects: Women, Fiction, Bangladesh, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, general
