How long does it take to read A World for Julius?
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
A World for Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique takes about 8 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 45 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1970. 477 pages, about 131,175 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
""Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome." Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius' father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children's lives like an ephemeral shooting star. Despite the soft shelter of family and money, hard realities overshadow Julius' expanding world, just as the rugged Andes loom over his home in Lima."--BOOK JACKET. "This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. A member of that elite, Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family who become nouveaux riches with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s. A World for Julius, his first novel, marks the first appearance in English of this important Peruvian writer, whose Latin American postmodern fiction has won critical acclaim throughout the Spanish-speaking world."--BOOK JACKET.
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