How long does it take to read Wolf Totem?
A Novel
Rong Jiang, Howard Goldblatt
Wolf Totem by Rong Jiang, Howard Goldblatt takes about 9 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 527 pages, about 144,925 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia. There, he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity based on an eternal struggle between the wolves and the humans in their fight to survive. Chen learns about the spiritual relationship which exists between these adversaries.
Subjects: Fiction, Nomads, Human-wolf encounters, Wolves, History, Fiction, historical, general
