How long does it take to read Tear This Heart Out?
Tear This Heart Out by Ángeles Mastretta takes about 5 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 293 pages, about 80,575 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Excellent, highly colloquial translation of Arráncame la vida (see HLAS 48:5193), set in post-revolutionary Mexico. Peden has created a sparkling, irreverent Catalina, Mastretta's first-person protagonist who narrates her coming of age through a marriage to a retired general much older than herself. No background information. For historical introduction, see Ann Wright's translation of this novel, Mexican bolero (HLAS 54:5031)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Women, Fiction, Mexico, fiction, Fiction, general
