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How long does it take to read The Rainbow Troops?

Andrea Hirata

The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata takes about 5 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 34 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2009. 304 pages, about 83,600 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 17 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 34 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 29 minutes

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

About the book

"On Indonesia's Belitong Island--impoverished and tyrannized by tin-mining interests--a wily group of schoolchildren fight for their right to education"--

Subjects: Indonesian fiction, School children, Fiction, Indonesia, fiction, Fiction, general

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