A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House ¿ setting the tone for a collection shot through with Vonnegut's acrid wit, and his bewilderment at the corruption...

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,...

Frühstück für starke Männer: oder Goodbye Blauer Montag (rororo / Rowohlts Rotations Romane)

A deep and meaningful masterpiece of science fiction, full of heart and mind-bending ideas. A true classic, Vonnegut will make you laugh and have you contemplating the meaning of life When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into...

Billy Pilgrim, der Held von Slaughterhouse-Five, entdeckt als Soldat im Zweiten Weltkrieg, dass er sich in der vierten Dimension, losgelöst von der Sequenzialität der Zeit, bewegt. So pendelt er ungewollt vom Jetzt zu seinem eigenen Tod,...

Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it...

London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses to the hell of a debtors' prison.The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who...

"An anthology in which Vonnegut freely quotes himself on everything from art and architecture to madness and mass murder...Uncompromising."-Los Angeles Times"Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has...

_______________ 'Part memoir, part rant and part joke ... as elusive as it is beguiling' - Sunday Times 'If Vonnegut isn't the enduring Good Humor man, who is?' - John Irving, The Times 'One of the greatest writers of the past 50 years'...

Manhattan has become the Island of Death. The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire State Building. He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or...

"A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain."-The New York Times Book Review Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary...

"A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!"-The New York Times Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the...