About This Book
In his highly-acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her fr...
Reading Time Estimates
5h 6m
slow reader
180 WPM
3h 40m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 37m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 55,000 wordsπ
8 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
3 h 40 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
4 h 4 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
6 h 7 min
Audio 2x
3 h 3 min
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- π 8 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
- π8 commutesΒ of 30 min each