It takes the average reader 5 hours and 17 minutes to read Dragon Boat Café by Esther Hood
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Fresh from art college, Johnny is looking for an exciting location to begin his career as a painter. Where better than Hong Kong? But far from living in the fast lane among the bright city lights, Johnny finds himself in a small Chinese village where a band of aging expats take a shine to him. With Lucy's cafe as a base, Johnny encounters the colonial past, the plight of the Vietnamese boat people and the thrill of the village dragon boat races. Will this colourful landscape be enough for Johnny? Or will his brush run dry? Here, in her second evocative novel about life in 1980s Hong Kong, Esther-Margaret Hood shows readers another side of the former British territory
Dragon Boat Café by Esther Hood is 308 pages long, and a total of 79,464 words.
This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 14 minutes to read Dragon Boat Café aloud.
Dragon Boat Café is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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