How long does it take to read The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town?
The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town by Amos Tutuola takes about 2 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 18 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1952. 125 pages, about 34,375 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A novel that tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature.
Subjects: Fiction, Yoruba (African people), Folklore, Wine and wine making, Nigeria, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author)
