How long does it take to read The Gift of Rain?
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng takes about 8 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 447 pages, about 122,925 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Takes the readers from the final days of the Chinese emperors to the dying era of the British Empire, with a young man's perilous journey through the betrayals of war and into manhood.
Subjects: Collaborationists, Racially mixed people, Fiction, History, Fiction, general, Malaysia, fiction
