How long does it take to read The Elephant Vanishes?
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Humorous stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Japan, fiction, Nouvelles japonaises
