Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
9.2
Points
29.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
149364
Points per Word
0.000194
Page Count
368
Points per Page
0.078804
Description
Florentino Ariza waits fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days to finally possess Fermina Daza, a woman who once promised her love but then jilted him in favor of another. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.