First published 1980
Billy Pilgrim has become "unstuck in time," leaping between past, present, and future without warning. Drafted into the Army, he's taken prisoner by the Germans and witnesses the devastating firebombing of Dresden. Abducted by aliens, his fragmented consciousness reflects the chaos of war and the struggle to find meaning in trauma and mortality.
Genres: fiction, science-fiction, literary-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century
Vibes: emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: time-travel, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Dresden, Germany
Period: 1939-1945
Paperback · Dial Press
Content warnings: violence, war