How long does it take to read Houseboy?
Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono takes about 2 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 26 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1966. 133 pages, about 36,575 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Cameroonian houseboy Toundi dreams of advancement and so studies the world of his white masters closely. "Gradually his eyes are opened to its realities, and in the end this leads to tragic consequences because the Europeans cannot endure the gaze of the man they have destroyed."--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Household employees, Household employees--cameroon--fiction, Fiction
