It takes the average reader 5 hours and 2 minutes to read The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje is 301 pages long, and a total of 75,551 words.
This makes it 102% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 52 minutes to read The English Patient aloud.
The English Patient is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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