Blackbirds Essential Classics 2024 - Slaughterhouse Five

Leesniveau: B2, young adult reader

Schooltype: bovenbouw havo/vwo (4 havo, 5 havo, 4 vwo, 5 vwo, 6 vwo), mbo B2

Leeftijdscategorie: vanaf 16 jaar

Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time, hurtling backwards and forwards between the different stages of his life – senseless violence in World War II, simple monotony as a middle-aged man, and bewildering confusion as an alien abductee. Full of genre-bending inventiveness and wit, Slaughterhouse Five is a novel of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety.

Review

It is one of those essential classics that everyone should read at least once. Though published in 1969, it remains relevant and will remain relevant for many years to come.

Bron: A Librarian and Her Books.