How long does it take to read The Story of a New Name?
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante takes about 9 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Neapolitan Novels
Previous: My Brilliant Friend Next: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
About 9 hours 31 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2012. 519 pages, about 142,725 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the cruel price that this passage exacts. --back cover
Subjects: choice, conduct of life, dreams, female friendship, fiction, interpersonal relations
