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Mother night

by Kurt Vonnegut

This satirical novel explores the moral complexities of identity and guilt through the story of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American spy during the Second World War who is put on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal.

Accession 9209 ISBN 0586036490 Publisher Panther
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