num_pages: 177
description: Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
language: English
title: Slaughterhouse-Five
titlecomplete: Slaughterhouse-Five
characters: Valencia Merble, Barbara Pilgrim, Montana Wildhack, Bertam Copeland Rumfoord, Billy Pilgrim, Eliot Rosewater, Robert Pilgrim, Paul Lazzaro, Kilgore Trout, Roland Weary, Howard W. Campbell Jr., Edgar Derby
genres: Classics, American, Fantasy, Time Travel, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 1330554
places: Tralfamadore, Germany, Ilium, Dresden, The United States of America
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: Vintage Classics