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How long does it take to read The Illicit Happiness Of Other People?

Manu Joseph

The Illicit Happiness Of Other People by Manu Joseph takes about 5 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 56 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2012. 324 pages, about 89,100 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 54 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 56 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 43 minutes

The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Three years after 17-year-old Unni Chacko, a budding cartoonist, plunged from his third-floor terrace, his father, Ousep, resumes his obsessive search for the truth behind his death, using his son's funny and contemplative comics as guides in his quest through modern-day India.

Subjects: Families, Fiction, Fiction, romance, general, India, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, family life

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