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How long does it take to read Inés of My Soul?

Isabel Allende

Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende takes about 6 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 43 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2006. 366 pages, about 100,650 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 11 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 43 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 12 minutes

The page count is the median across 53 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World. Inés uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru, she learns that her husband has died in battle. Soon she begins a fiery love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro." "Valdivia's dream is to succeed where other Spaniards have failed: to become the conquerer of Chile. The natives of Chile are fearsome warriors, and the land is rumored to be barren of gold, but this suits Valdivia, who seeks only honor and glory. Together the lovers Inés Suarez and Pedro de Valdivia will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage a bloody, ruthless war against the indigenous Chileans - the fierce local Indians led by the chief Michimalonko, and the even fiercer Mapuche from the south. The horrific struggle will change them forever, pulling each of them toward their separate destinies."--BOOK JACKET

Subjects: Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Historia, Ficción, Man-woman relationships

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