It takes the average reader 9 hours and 22 minutes to read Kinfolk by Pearl S. Buck
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Four Chinese-American siblings make an emotional journey to their ancestral home in this novel from the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good Earth. Dr. Liang is a comfortably well-off professor of Confucian philosophy who fled China because of the government’s crackdown on intellectuals. Now, settled in 1940s New York, he believes in the notion of a pure and unchanging homeland. Under his influence, Liang’s four grown children make the momentous decision to move to China, despite having spent their whole lives in the United States. But as the siblings try in various ways to...
Kinfolk by Pearl S. Buck is 547 pages long, and a total of 140,579 words.
This makes it 185% the length of the average book. It also has 172% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 48 minutes to read Kinfolk aloud.
Kinfolk is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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