Mother Night

“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr.

Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . .

a zany but moral mad scientist.”—Time Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense.

American Howard W.

Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal.

But is he really guilty?

In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all. “A great artist.”—Cincinnati Enquirer “A shaking up in the kaleidoscope of laughter . . .

Reading Vonnegut is addictive!”—Commonweal