How long does it take to read Reef?
Romesh Gunesekera
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 192 pages, about 52,800 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 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Reef is a novel set in Sri Lanka that follows Triton, a gifted young chef who has been made to leave his father's home and take a job in the household of Mr. Salgado. His employer is a marine biologist with a fixation on swamps, the movement of the sea and the vanishing reef of an island. Triton devotes himself to winning his master's approval through carefully prepared food, and he pays little attention to anything beyond the kitchen. Meanwhile, political unrest is building across the country, and the book is concerned with the unnoticed pressure it places on both men.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Fiction, Young men, Household employees, Domestics, Bildungsromans, Sri Lanka
