It takes the average reader 9 hours and 19 minutes to read The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-yong
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he drifts toward a small house in Kalmoe, where he and Yoon Hee once stole a few fleeting months of happiness while fleeing the authorities. In the company of her diaries, he relives and reviews his life, trying to find meaning in the revolutionary struggle that consumed their youth—a youth of great energy...
The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-yong is 546 pages long, and a total of 139,776 words.
This makes it 184% the length of the average book. It also has 171% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 43 minutes to read The Old Garden aloud.
The Old Garden is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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