How long does it take to read Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez takes about 2 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 27 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1980. 134 pages, about 36,850 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 104 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, framed as a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction of a killing. An unnamed narrator pieces together, out of order, the events of the morning on which Santiago Nasar is to die. A newlywed bride, Ángela Vicario, is returned to her family in disgrace and names Santiago as the man responsible. Her twin brothers, Pablo and Pedro, resolve to avenge the family's honor and announce their intent openly, yet the townspeople hesitate to act or to warn him.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: ritual, Death, Spanish fiction, Colombian fiction, Fiction, Death in fiction
