num_pages: 186
description: Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Germans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore
language: English
title: Slaughterhouse Five: Or, The Children's Crusade
titlecomplete: Slaughterhouse Five: Or, The Children's Crusade
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: 1330726
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: Delta