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Title: Slaughterhouse-Five

       Author: Kurt Vonnegut
       Publisher: Delacorte

       Genre:  Dark  comedy,  Satire,  Science  fiction,

       War novel,

       Metafiction, Postmodernism

       First Publication: March 31, 1969

       Language: English



       Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” is a read that
       is engaging, thought-provoking and ‘un-putdown

       able’, for it is a poignant anti-war novel that has

       elements of science fiction, including 4th-dimensional
       time travel and aliens, that keeps you perplexed

       throughout. It’s a nonlinear story that follows a man

       named Billy Pilgrim as he travels through different
       moments in his life, weaving back and forth through

       distinct time periods.



       This perfectly crafted novel starts off with Billy Pilgrim’s experiences during World War II,

       including his capture by the Germans and subsequent imprisonment, in a somewhat
       chronological manner. Mixed in with the war story are the events that occur in Billy’s life,

       both before and after the war; many of them are told as Billy time travels to the past and

       to the future. It is learned that Billy lives a somewhat ordinary life in Ilium, New York.
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