How long does it take to read Difficult Daughters?
Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur takes about 4 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 267 pages, about 73,425 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Set around the time of Partition, Difficult Daughters is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor - a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home (along-side his furious first wife) and helps her towards further studies in Lahore, is small consolation to her scandalised family. Or even to Virmati, who finds that the battle for her own independence has created irrevocable lines of partition and pain around her."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, general, India, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Social life and customs, Social role, Fiction
