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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
514 pages2011
Fiction
About This Book
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats con...
Reading Time Estimates
13h 5m
slow reader
180 WPM
9h 25m
average reader
250 WPM
6h 44m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 141,350 wordsπ
19 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
9 hours 25 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
10 hours 28 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
15 hours 42 min
Audio 2x
7 hours 51 min
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- π 19 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
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