Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. </p>
Slaughterhouse-Five is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is also as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch-22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it unique poignancy -- and humor. </p>

全世界最偉大的反戰書之ㄧ
詼諧……，卻不容笑的餘地∕悲傷，卻流不出淚來
《第五號屠宰場》因為一場戰爭而起，卻影響了另一場戰爭。
馮內果藉此撼動了七○年代、越戰時期的美國年輕人，點燃了新世代的觀念之火！
1945年，德勒斯登遭到大轟炸時，馮內果本人正巧身在德國。他和其他戰俘一起，在「第五號屠宰場」地下貯存獸肉的地窖裡捱過了一夜，逃避了頭頂上的一場狂轟濫炸。二次大戰的親身經驗，衍生出了這部有史以來最偉大的反戰書之一。
馮內果運用科幻小說的技巧，讓主人翁畢勒在德勒斯登一場因空襲而起的大火中九死一生後，展開了一場自由穿梭時空的冒險之旅。這次的經歷讓他認識了四度空間，也學會了如何看待死亡。在《第五號屠宰場》裡，無論戰場上或時空旅行中，馮內果描述許多面臨生死邊緣或受苦受難的人所採取的方式皆是冷靜超然——把自己掩埋在池底下、地底下或是宇宙底層，人類可以無視時間與空間的存在，任憑自己的心靈自由飄蕩，八方馳騁。
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