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How long does it take to read The City & The City?

China Miéville

The City & The City by China Miéville takes about 7 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 2 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2009. 384 pages, about 105,600 words.

15 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 44 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 2 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 24 minutes

The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Besźel.

Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, Murder, Investigation, Fiction, English fiction, Meurtre

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