How long does it take to read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1967. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 208 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Cien años de soledad es una novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1982. Es considerada una obra maestra de la literatura hispanoamericana y universal, cumbre del denominado "realismo mágico". Es asimismo una de las obras más traducidas y leídas en español. Narra la historia de la familia Buendía a lo largo de siete generaciones en el pueblo ficticio de Macondo.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- death of a child
- suicide
- abuse
- war
Subjects: Fiction, Social conditions, Macondo (Imaginary place), novel, magic realism, Condiciones sociales
