How long does it take to read Once Were Warriors?
Alan Duff
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff takes about 3 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 195 pages, about 53,625 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece of unblinking realism, irresistible energy, and great sorrow.
Subjects: Fiction, Maori (New Zealand people), domestic violence, gangs, suicide, welfare
