How long does it take to read The Tattooed Soldier?
Héctor Tobar
The Tattooed Soldier by Héctor Tobar takes about 5 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 307 pages, about 84,425 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Guatemalan refugee whose family was killed by a death squad spots one of the killers playing chess in a park in Los Angeles and plots revenge. The denouement comes during one of the city's riots
Subjects: Fiction, Guatemalan Americans, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Guatemala, fiction, Fiction, psychological
