How long does it take to read The Singapore Grip?
The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell takes about 10 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1978. 572 pages, about 157,300 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to come to a terrible end. A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy” that began with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.
Subjects: Strikes and lockouts, British, Fiction, Sieges, Rubber industry and trade, History
