How long does it take to read The Enigma of Arrival?
a novel
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story of a writer's singular journey from Trinidad to England and from one state of mind to another.
Subjects: Fiction, Immigrants, Trinidadians, City and town life, Fiction, general, England, fiction
