How long does it take to read Kitchen?
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto takes about 2 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 51 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1988. 155 pages, about 42,625 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious and devastating effect.
Subjects: Fiction, Kitchens, Literatura japonesa, Japanese Short stories, Women, Domestic fiction
