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How long does it take to read The Fragrance of Guava?

Gabriel García Márquez, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

The Fragrance of Guava by Gabriel García Márquez, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza takes about 2 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 26 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1982. 133 pages, about 36,575 words.

5 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 4 hours 4 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 26 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 31 minutes

The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In these conversations Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, speaks about his Colombian family background, his early travels and struggles as writer, his literary antecedents, and his personal artistic concerns.

Subjects: Colombian Authors, Interviews, Romanschrijvers, Spaans, Autobiographie, Authors, Colombian

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