How long does it take to read Brick Lane?
Monica Ali
Brick Lane by Monica Ali takes about 7 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 423 pages, about 116,325 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Monica Ali's debut novel, Brick Lane, was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. Carrying into her adult years a sense of fatalism instilled during her hardscrabble birth, Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age and moved to London, where she begins to wonder if she has a say in her own destiny.
Subjects: Ehe, Bangladeschische Einwanderin, Muslimin, Fiction, Muslim women, Sisters
