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How long does it take to read The Nakano Thrift Shop?

Hiromi Kawakami

The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami takes about 4 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 33 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2005. 248 pages, about 68,200 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 35 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 33 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 51 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In the Nakano Thrift Shop, the young woman who works the register falls for her reserved co-worker and asks her employers sister for advice in attracting him and soon comes to realize that love requires acceptance of idiosyncrasies and secrets.

Subjects: Thrift shops, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Tokyo (japan), fiction, Fiction, general, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction

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