How long does it take to read Hotel Iris?
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa takes about 3 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours
A weekend read
First published 2010. 164 pages, about 45,100 words. Written for young adults.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Young hotel clerk Mari is drawn to a widowed translator suspected of killing his wife, who initiates her into a dark realm of pleasure and pain, a world that she embraces even more than the translator.
Subjects: Teenage girls, Sexual abuse victims, Middle-aged men, Hotelkeepers, Sadomasochism, Fiction
