How long does it take to read Soldiers of Salamis?
Javier Cercas, Elisabeth Beyer, Aleksandar Grujicic, José Pablo García
Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas, Elisabeth Beyer, Aleksandar Grujicic, José Pablo García takes about 4 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 220 pages, about 60,500 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 36 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Taking as starting point an insignificant episode of the Spanish civil war, Soldados de Salamina (Salamis soldiers) is a novel about the literary vocation, about the meaning and value of narrative fictions and also about moral heroism.
Subjects: History of Spain, History, Spanish Civil War, Fiction, Historia, Historia de España
