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Excerpt
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Literary origin
Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.
United States
Topics from Open Library
Subjects
- American science fiction
- bombing of Dresden
- Open Library staff picks
- military fiction
- war stories
- World War II
- World War, 1939-1945
- literature and the war
- war
- free will and determinism
People
- Billy Pilgrim
Times & places
- 1939-1945