How long does it take to read Gai-Jin (Asian Saga?
Chronological Order #3)
Gai-Jin (Asian Saga by James Clavell takes about 22 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 22 hours 35 minutes
A long haul
First published 1993. 1,232 pages, about 338,800 words.
46 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 37 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 22 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 14 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell’s latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan–an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.…
Subjects: History, Man-woman relationships, Historical fiction, Japanese Love stories, British, Fiction
