How long does it take to read The Woman in the Dunes?
The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 176 pages, about 48,400 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A man collecting insects in a remote seaside area of Japan finds himself trapped in a town of enormous sand dunes.
Subjects: Japan, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, Villages, Sand dunes
