How long does it take to read Memushiri, Kouchi?
Memushiri, Kouchi by Kenzaburō Ōe takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 189 pages, about 51,975 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The first novel by Japan's most celebrated living writer, Nip The Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of fifteen teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime. The narrator who acts as nominal leader of the small band, his younger brother and their comrades are all delinquent outcasts, feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, their hosts abandon them and flee, then blockade them inside the empty village, together with a young Korean, an army deserter and a girl evacuee. However, the boys' brief, doomed attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love and tribal valour inevitably fails with the reflux of death and the adult nightmare of war.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile delinquents, Teenage boys, Japan, fiction, Fiction, general
