How long does it take to read Woman at Point Zero?
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi takes about 2 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 2 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1983. 111 pages, about 30,525 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.
Subjects: Arabic fiction, Feminism, Fiction, Social conditions, Prostitutes, English fiction
