It takes the average reader 8 hours and 23 minutes to read The Secret of Vesalius by Jordi Llobregat
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona. Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter - a demand - stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind. He arrives back in that old, labyrinthine and near-mythic city a few days before the great 1888 World Fair, amid dread whispers of murders - the injuries reminiscent of an ancient curse, and bearing signs of the genius 16th century anatomist, Vesalius. Daniel is soon pulled into the depths of the crime, and eventually into the tunnels below Barcelona, where his own dark past and the future of science are joined in a terrible venture - to bring the secret of Vesalius to life. Gothic and gripping, this historical thriller makes of Barcelona a diabolical character - emerging out of the dark into a new electrical age, aflame with spirit, superstition and science. Published in eighteen countries, Jordi Llobregat's bestselling first novel mixes a passionate setting and cryptic mystery into a genre-crossing phenomenon.
The Secret of Vesalius by Jordi Llobregat is 501 pages long, and a total of 125,751 words.
This makes it 169% the length of the average book. It also has 154% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 27 minutes to read The Secret of Vesalius aloud.
The Secret of Vesalius is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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