How long does it take to read We, the Drowned?
Carsten Jensen
We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen takes about 12 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 678 pages, about 186,450 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Follows a century in the port town of Marstal on an island off the coast of Denmark, whose citizens' lives are indelibly shaped by forces ranging from wars and shipwrecks to taboo survival practices and forbidden passions.
Subjects: Sailing, Fiction, Denmark, fiction, Fiction, general
