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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House
Description
Introduction
Everything in the story happened, more or less. At least the part about the war is pretty true.
Billy is abducted by aliens, and he is disconnected from the chain of time.
He went to bed a doddering widower and woke up on his wedding day.
He entered through the door in 1955 and came out through the other door in 1941.
He said that he had seen himself being born and dying many times, that he had become rich and had many children and grandchildren, and that he had also seen himself being a prisoner of war and experiencing the disaster of Slaughterhouse-Five over and over again...
[Editor's Recommendation]
◆ The father of black humor, Vonnegut, celebrates his 100th birthday with a hardcover edition!
◆ This disaster changed everyone forever, and only black humor remains to laugh at and smooth everything out.
◆ Haruki Murakami, Atwood, Bolaño, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Satoshi Kon, Park Chan-wook, Mu Xin, Mai Jia...all love to read Vonnegut.
◆ This book was selected as one of the "100 Eternal Classics" by Time magazine, "100 Century Classics" by Modern Library, a reading list for American public high schools and universities, and "100 Forbidden Books in the World"...
◆ After experiencing the war personally, the author Vonnegut spent 25 years and wrote more than 5,000 pages trying to recall the disaster that changed his life. In the end, he just told a story about time travel.
◆ "Vonnegut's novels are both funny and sad, his pain is never serious, he is unique." - Doris Lessing (Nobel Prize winner in Literature)
◆ Specially authorized by the Vonnegut Foundation, including the author’s signature and preface.
◆ Introduction by Yu Jianhua, professor of Shanghai International Studies University, to deeply appreciate the black humor and absurd reality.
◆ "I wrote Slaughterhouse-Five and made $3 for every death." - Vonnegut
◆ Reading Vonnegut is to use black humor to resist the absurd reality.