How long does it take to read Across the Nightingale Floor?
Lian Hearn, Mercedes Nunez
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn, Mercedes Nunez takes about 5 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Tales of the Otori
Next: Grass for His Pillow
About 5 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 305 pages, about 83,875 words. Written for young adults.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Already a sensation around the world, this first book of the Otori Trilogy is a brilliantly imagined, wholly seductive tale of war, passion, and intrigue, evoking the spirit of medieval Japan. It is the story of a boy who is suddenly plucked from his life in a remote and peaceful village to find himself a pawn in a political scheme filled with treacherous warlords, rivalry and the intensity of first love.
Subjects: Teenage boys, Young adult fiction, Fiction, coming of age, fantasy, feudal Japan
