Part war story, part science fiction, part blistering satire—Slaughterhouse-Five is unlike anything else.
Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. One moment, he’s a POW in WWII, surviving the firebombing of Dresden. The next, he’s an optometrist. Then he’s on an alien spaceship. Through all of it, one thing remains constant: war is madness.
Kurt Vonnegut’s genre-bending masterpiece tackles trauma, fate, and free will with a deadpan wit that’s as biting now as it was in 1969. Hailed as one of the greatest antiwar novels ever written, Slaughterhouse-Five is raw, absurd, and devastatingly human.
Still banned, still debated, still brilliant—this modern classic remains essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of chaos, survival, or time itself. So it goes.
