How long does it take to read Land of Many Colors?
Land of Many Colors by Maryse Condé takes about 2 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 4 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1999. 113 pages, about 31,075 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Two historical novellas set in the Caribbean. The first is on a revolutionary fighting the French, the second is a roman à trois against the background of a slave revolt in Jamaica. By a writer from Guadeloupe, author of The Children of Segu.
Subjects: Social conditions, Fiction, Caribbean area, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Jamaica, fiction
