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Slaughterhouse 5

byKurt Vonnegut

Who is this book for? Readers interested in anti-war literature, science fiction, and classic American literature.

Topics anti-wartime travelmythic journeymeaning of lifetragedy of warsurvivalexistentialismhuman experiencepsychological traumahistorical fictionWarFree WillSurvivalIdentity
MoodDark, Humorous, Reflective
HumorSatire
ViolenceModerate
Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out? Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency. The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.’ George Saunders

Language

ru

Published on

21/03/1991

Pages

156

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780099800200

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