How long does it take to read So Far from the Bamboo Grove?
Yoko Kawashima Watkins
So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins takes about 3 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 183 pages, about 50,325 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, historical fiction, Children's fiction, Korea, fiction, Japan, fiction
