How long does it take to read The Tin Drum?
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass takes about 10 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Danzig Trilogy
Next: Cat and Mouse
About 10 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1959. 591 pages, about 162,525 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 111 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Die Blechtrommel ist ein Roman von Günter Grass. Er erschien 1959 als Auftakt der Danziger Trilogie und gehört zu den meistgelesenen Romanen der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur. Der Roman lässt sich als historischer Roman, Zeitroman, Schelmenroman und Entwicklungsroman charakterisieren.
Subjects: Fiction, History, German Historical fiction, Dwarfs, German Political fiction, Political fiction
