How long does it take to read My Tender Matador?
My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel takes about 3 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 7 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 170 pages, about 46,750 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods, the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic, embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings. Thus begins a friendship and a love that will have unexpected though vastly different consequences for both." "My Tender Matador is an extraordinary novel of revolution and forbidden love, and a stirring portrait of Chile at a historical crossroads. By turns funny and profoundly moving, Pedro Lemebel's lyrical prose offers an intimate window into the world and mind of Pinochet himself. As Carlos and the Queen negotiate their unspoken complicity and mismatched affections to the beat of the bolero and the threat of repression, Pinochet contends with revolutionary upstarts, negative world opinion, fascistic reveries, terrifying nightmares, and an endlessly chattering wife who has more respect and affection for her hair stylist than for her husband."--Jacket.
Subjects: Chile, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, general, Fiction
