Bluebeard Author: Kurt Vonnegut Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group

Introduction
Introduction
Labao Carabecchia, 71 years old, is a former World War II soldier, painter and famous collector. He is single, lonely and wealthy. Carabecchia lives alone in a mansion on Long Island, New York, hoping that he can be forgotten by the world along with the secret locked in the potato warehouse - but this secret has become a myth.
One day, a reckless, lively and curious widow suddenly broke into his life, forcing him to review his first half of life, and pestering him to open his secret warehouse and tell the story of his life...
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Editor's Recommendations
★ A mischievous autobiographical novel, the last work of an art apprentice
★ This is Vonnegut's important masterpiece in his later years, and the simplified Chinese version is now published for the first time.
★Since its publication in 1987, it has been highly praised by famous media such as The New York Times and Time Magazine, and has been hailed as "the best novel since Slaughterhouse-Five."
★ Vonnegut is a literary idol highly respected by many heavyweight writers of the 20th century, including Haruki Murakami, Graham Greene, and Norman Mailer, and a black humor writer as famous as Mark Twain.
★ In the 1960s, almost everyone on American college campuses had a copy of Vonnegut's novels, and he was "the idol of several generations of American youth."
★ In the novel, Vonnegut narrates his awkward artistic career in the form of an autobiography of a former American abstract expressionist painter, and finally completes his swan song as an art apprentice.
★ Using black humor that is more painful to laugh than to cry, it writes how major historical events such as the "World War II" and the "Armenian Genocide" influence the fate of individuals.
★ Although this book is not a credible history of the American Abstract Expressionist School, it truly reflects the artistic creation and life of a group of American art masters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. As the author said, in the book "I didn't ask them to do anything that these people actually wouldn't do."
★ It incorporates many of the themes from Vonnegut's earlier novels, including personal identity, the social role of the artist, the importance of family, the American class system, and the physical and emotional price paid in war. It can be said to be a great "summary" of the writer's life.