How long does it take to read Nada?
Carmen Laforet
Nada by Carmen Laforet takes about 5 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1945. 295 pages, about 81,125 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 74 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nada is a 1945 debut novel by Carmen Laforet, set in Barcelona in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Andrea, an orphan raised in a provincial convent, narrates the story. Awarded a government scholarship and a small stipend, she moves to the city to study at university and lodges with her grandmother. She expects the comfort she remembers from her family's better days, but finds a filthy, decaying house. Her devout grandmother, a controlling aunt and two quarrelling uncles share it, and violence regularly erupts among them. At university, Andrea befriends a wealthy classmate.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Bildungsromans, Criticism and interpretation, Fiction, Women college students, Spanish fiction, Social conditions
