How long does it take to read Sea Prayer?
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini takes about 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 53 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2018. 48 pages, about 13,200 words.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
Subjects: Fiction, Refugees, Fathers and sons, History, Fiction, family life, general, Middle east, fiction
