Slaughterhouse 5

"Slaughterhouse-Five" er en af de store satiriske romaner, der på en bitter - men underholdende - måde fortæller historien om den amerikanske soldat, Billy Pilgrim, der ikke tror på krigen. I tiden omkring det forfærdelige luftbombardement af Dresden under Anden Verdenskrig, kastes Billy ud i en række eventyrlige - og ret usandsynlige - situationer under sin personlige odyssé gennem tiden. "Slaughterhouse-Five" er Kurt Vonneguts kendte litterære klassiker, hvori Billy både når at være krigsfange, øjenlæge og tidsrejsende i en spilttet og fragmenteret fortælling, der afspejler menneskets universelle jagt på livets mening.

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. 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. ‘An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist’ New York Times Book Review This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

"Slaughterhouse-Five" er en af de store satiriske romaner, der på en bitter - men underholdende - måde fortæller historien om den amerikanske soldat, Billy Pilgrim, der ikke tror på krigen. I tiden omkring det forfærdelige luftbombardement af Dresden under Anden Verdenskrig, kastes Billy ud i en række eventyrlige - og ret usandsynlige - situationer under sin personlige odyssé gennem tiden. "Slaughterhouse-Five" er Kurt Vonneguts kendte litterære klassiker, hvori Billy både når at være krigsfange, øjenlæge og tidsrejsende i en spilttet og fragmenteret fortælling, der afspejler menneskets universelle jagt på livets mening.

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. 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. ‘An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist’ New York Times Book Review This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

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. From Dresden’s burning city to later life in America, leaping through time and space, Slaughterhouse 5 explores what war does to the mind and why remembering matters. Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful. 'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times 'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century' George Saunders 'A graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' Sunday Times

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. From Dresden’s burning city to later life in America, leaping through time and space, Slaughterhouse 5 explores what war does to the mind and why remembering matters. Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful. 'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times 'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century' George Saunders 'A graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' Sunday Times