Genre
Anti-war science fiction
Slaughterhouse-Five
A fractured anti-war classic about trauma and time.
Details
Subgenre
Fragmented war satire
Original publication
31 March 1969
Original publisher
Delacorte
Pages
288
Format
Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions
Language
English
Setting
Dresden, America and alien time
ISBN
9780385333849
Original title
Slaughterhouse-Five
About the book
Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time as the bombing of Dresden, trauma and absurdity shape a fractured life.
A strong match for readers asking for anti-war fiction, satire, trauma, time travel and dark comic science fiction.
Vonnegut uses science-fiction devices to show how trauma resists ordinary linear storytelling.
It is ideal for readers who want war literature that is funny, strange, sad and formally inventive.
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