"Some of the best and most moving Vonnegut."-San Francisco ChronicleSlapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look...

"Geh zurück zu deiner lieben Frau und deinem Sohn: Erzählungen" ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten des renommierten amerikanischen Autors Kurt Vonnegut. Die Geschichten in dieser Sammlung zeichnen sich durch Vonneguts...

"Schlachthof 5" von Kurt Vonnegut, auch bekannt als "Der Kinderkreuzzug", ist ein anti-kriegs Science-Fiction-Roman, der erstmals 1969 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte folgt Billy Pilgrim, einem unkonventionellen Protagonisten, der...

Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our...

Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and...

Hocus Pocus or, What's the Hurry, Son?

In what is supposedly his final book, Kurt Vonnegut addresses a wide range of subjects with a combination of wicked wit and boundless imagination, looking at suicide, memory, "deja vu", the Great Depression, W.W.II and the loss of...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to humanity. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. Writer Jonah's search for his...

Player Piano

Die Gefreiten Donnini, Coleman und Kniptash sitzen mitten in den Ruinen des zerstörten Dresden und gehen ihre Lieblingsrezepte durch. »Man bräunt es etwa fünf Minuten lang von jeder Seite an, gibt Sellerie, Zwiebeln und Karotten hinzu,...

"A desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century."-Time Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the...

'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country' - New...