How long does it take to read Weep Not, Child?
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo takes about 2 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 49 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1964. 154 pages, about 42,350 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: in the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.First published in 1964, Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular"--
Subjects: Politics and government, Boys, Brothers, Fiction, History, FICTION / Literary
