About This Book
The central novel from V.S. Naipaul's Booker Prize-winning narrative of displacement, published for the first time in a stand-alone edition In a Free State: The Novel is set in Africa, in a place like Uganda or Rwanda, and its two main characters are English. They had once found liberation in Africa...
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Reading Time Estimates
4h 35m
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180 WPM
3h 18m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 21m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 49,500 words📅 7 days at 30 min/day
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3 h 18 min
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3 h 40 min
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5 h 30 min
Audio 2x
2 h 45 min
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