How long does it take to read Farewell My Concubine?
Pi-hua Li, Bihua Li
Farewell My Concubine by Pi-hua Li, Bihua Li takes about 4 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 264 pages, about 72,600 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 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. An absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.
Subjects: Chinese Operas, Gay men, Fiction, China, fiction, Fiction, general, Male actors
