The China Lover: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The China Lover runs 13.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Nigel Patterson (about 9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 27 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 13.5 hours, it runs longer than 79% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Nigel Patterson
Nigel Patterson narrates 153 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,957 hours in all.
- Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
- The Door on Half-Bald Hill
- Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
2,243 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Before We Were Yours
- The Giver of Stars: Reese's Book Club
- Circe
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- The Invention of Wings
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The China Lover is an audiobook by Ian Buruma: a 13.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Nigel Patterson, released October 30, 2018, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Nigel Patterson
- Released
- October 30, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781684413379
How to listen to The China Lover free
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The China Lover as an audiobook?
The China Lover runs 13.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9 hours.
Is The China Lover free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The China Lover?
The China Lover is narrated by Nigel Patterson.
Is The China Lover worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9 hours, saving 4.5 hours.