How long does it take to read The Dark Holds No Terrors?
The Dark Holds No Terrors by Shashi Deshpande takes about 4 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 263 pages, about 72,325 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An Indian woman leaves an abusive husband and returns to her family home. There she confronts the issues of her brother's drowning, her late mother's resentment, and her now elderly father.
Subjects: Abused wives, Social life and customs, Families, Fiction, Fiction, general, India, fiction
