How long does it take to read My Traitor's Heart?
Rian Malan
My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan takes about 7 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 397 pages, about 109,175 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Malan, former South African crime reporter, searches for the truth behind apartheid, and finds it not in the way blacks and whites live, but in the way they die at one another's hands
Subjects: Biography, Exiles, Family, Genealogy, Huguenots, Rian Malan
