num_pages: 143
description: Billy Pilgrim, billeted as a prisoner of war in a Dresden slaughterhouse, survives the worst holocaust of World War II.Billy Pilgrim, kidnapped by the small green inhabitants of the planet Tralfamadore, is displayed naked in a zoo and publicly mated with the beautiful Earthling movie star Montana Wildhack.Billy Pilgrim, time-traveler, finally comes to understand the nature of death (and life) and returns to Earth to preach his startling message.Billy Pilgrim is the hero of this inspired new novel by one of America's most brilliant modern authors.
language: English
title: Slaughterhouse 5
titlecomplete: Slaughterhouse 5
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: 1330778
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: Panther