How long does it take to read Patria?
Patria by Fernando Aramburu takes about 11 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 52 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 647 pages, about 177,925 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A small Basque village is irreparably changed and broken by political fanaticism. Childhood friends, Bittori and Mirren, wounded by their craters of grief find it impossible to forget and forgive.
Subjects: Terrorism, Fiction, Families, Victims of terrorism, Terrorists, Violencia