How long does it take to read Scarlet Song?
Scarlet Song by Mariama Bâ takes about 3 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 171 pages, about 47,025 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Africa, fiction, Fiction, general, Women, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Senegalese fiction (French)
