How long does it take to read Living to Tell the Tale?
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez takes about 10 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 33 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 575 pages, about 158,125 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Vivir para contarla es, probablement, el libro mas esperado de la decada, compendio y recreacion de un tiempo crucial en la vida de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. En este apasionante relato, el premio Nobel colombiano ofrece la memoria de sus anos de infancia y juventud, aquellos en los que se fundaria el imaginario que, con el tiempo, daria lugar a algunos relatos y novelas fundamentales en la literatura en lengua espanola del siglo XX.
Subjects: Biography, Colombian Novelists, Childhood and youth, Colombian Authors, Autores colombianos, Biografía