How long does it take to read Accident?
Accident by Christa Wolf takes about 2 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 10 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1987. 118 pages, about 32,450 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear accident at Chernobyl, one thousand miles away. In the space of a single day, in a potent, lyrical stream of thought, the narrator confronts both mortality and life and above all, the import of each moment lived-open, as Wolf reveals, to infinite analysis.
Subjects: Fiction, Conto Alemao, History, Fiction, general, Ukraine, fiction
