It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A pair of thematically linked novellas from the acclaimed author of Lizard, Amrita, and Goodbye Tsugumi. In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and bestseller status. Her insightful, spare vision returns in two novellas possessed by the ghosts of love found and lost. In Hardboiled, the unnamed narrator is hiking in the mountains on an anniversary she has forgotten about, the anniversary of her ex-lover’s death. As she nears her hotel—stopping on the...
Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.
This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read Hardboiled & Hard Luck aloud.
Hardboiled & Hard Luck is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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