num_pages: 232
description: Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present
language: English
title: Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death
titlecomplete: Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death
characters: Montana Wildhack, Kilgore Trout, Bertam Copeland Rumfoord, Roland Weary, Paul Lazzaro, Robert Pilgrim, Billy Pilgrim, Edgar Derby, Eliot Rosewater, Barbara Pilgrim, Howard W. Campbell Jr., Valencia Merble
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, War, American, Literature, Classics, Novels, Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1331044
places: Ilium, Dresden, The United States of America, Germany, Tralfamadore
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 28800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 28800000
name: Chicago Publishers' Award
publisher: G.K. Hall & Company/Thorndike