What do a little person, a calypso-singing prophet, and a doomsday weapon have in common? Only the end of the world.
In Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut delivers a darkly hilarious, razor-sharp satire about science, religion, and the absurdity of human ambition. When an unassuming writer sets out to chronicle the life of a fictional atomic bomb creator, he stumbles into a tangled web of apocalyptic invention and spiritual nonsense on the island of San Lorenzo. There, he discovers Ice-Nine, a substance capable of freezing the world.
Equal parts absurd and profound, Cat’s Cradle is Vonnegut at his finest, brilliant, biting, and completely unpredictable. If you’ve ever laughed while watching everything fall apart, this book is for you.
