Literary Fiction

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

Billy Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time," experiencing his life non-linearly—from his time as a WWII POW witnessing Dresden's firebombing to his abduction by aliens. Vonnegut's darkly satirical masterpiece shatters conventional narrative to capture the fractured psyche of a man traumatized by war's absurdity.

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