How long does it take to read The Informers?
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez takes about 6 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 345 pages, about 94,875 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke such a painful reaction. A volume that catalogues the life of Sara Guterman, a longtime family friend and Jewish immigrant, since her arrival in Colombia in the 1930s, A Life in Exile seemed a slim, innocent exercise in recording modern history. But as a devastated Gabriel delves, yet again, into Sara's story, searching for clues to his father's anger, he cannot yet see the sinister secret buried in his research that could destroy his father's exalted reputation and redefine his own. After his father's mysterious death in a car accident a few years later, Gabriel sets out anew to navigate half a century of half-truths and hidden meanings. With the help of Sara Guterman and his father's young girlfriend, Angelina, layer after shocking layer of Gabriel's world falls away and a complex portrait of his father emerges from the ruins. From the streets of 1940s Bogotá to a stranger's doorstep in 1990s Medellín, he unravels the web of doubt, betrayal, and guilt at the core of his father's life and he wades into a dark, longsilenced period of Colombian history after World War II. In achingly beautiful prose, Juan Gabriel Vásquez delivers a powerful, riveting exploration of the sins of our fathers and the inescapability of the past. A novel that has already earned Vásquez international accolades, as well as comparaisons to W.G. Sebald, Jorge Luis Borges, and Philip roth, The Informers heralds the arrival of an extraordinary international talent. (front flap)
Subjects: literary fiction, authors, social conditions, Novela, Fiction, Alemanes
