O Velho e o Mar by Ernest Hemingway
Published 2006 · 134 pages · 36,850 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is O Velho e o Mar to read?
O Velho e o Mar scores 13 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
Where the story of O Velho e o Mar takes place
- Cuban coast, early 1950s (1950 to 1952), the main setting