How long does it take to read Cat and Mouse?
Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass takes about 3 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1961. 178 pages, about 48,950 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 47 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The second book in the "Danzig trilogy," the followup to The tin drum. A novella focusing on adolescent boys in Danzig (now Gdansk) from 1939 to 1944, during the German occupation of Poland.
Subjects: Fiction, German fiction, Novela alemana, War stories, Gymnasiast, Persönlichkeitsentwicklung
