How long does it take to read Kafamda Bir Tuhaflik?
Kafamda Bir Tuhaflik by Orhan Pamuk takes about 11 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2015. 612 pages, about 168,300 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of twelve he comes to Istanbul--"the center of the world"--And is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza (a traditional mildly alcoholic Turkish drink) on the street, and hoping to become rich, like other villagers who have settled the desolate hills outside the booming metropolis. But luck never seems to be on Mevlut's side. As he watches his relations settle down and make their fortunes, he spends three years writing love letters to a girl he saw just once at a wedding, only to elope by mistake with her sister. And though he grows to cherish his wife and the family they have, he stumbles toward middle age in a series of jobs leading nowhere. His sense of missing something leads him sometimes to the politics of his friends and intermittently to the teachings of a charismatic religious guide. But every evening, without fail, Mevlut still wanders the streets of Istanbul, selling boza and wondering at the "strangeness" of his mind, the sensation that makes him feel different from everyone else, until fortune conspires once more to let him understand at last what it is he has always yearned for."--Jacket.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Roman, Street vendors, Social conditions, Text, Manners and customs
