Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time, repeatedly passing through childhood, war, captivity, marriage, old age, alien abduction, and death. Behind the science-fiction comedy stands Vonnegut's own survival of the 1945 bombing of Dresden.
Funny, wounded, and humane, Slaughterhouse-Five exposes the absurdity of war while preserving a simple wish: may peace endure. Audiobook in Chinese.