Mother Night

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By Kurt Vonnegut

Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American playwright who spent the war in Berlin broadcasting Nazi propaganda, sits in an Israeli cell awaiting trial as a war criminal. He insists he was an American agent all along, and that the propaganda carried his coded reports. Nobody who could confirm it is willing to.

A blackly funny novel about a man who served two masters and became what he pretended to be. Its moral, as Vonnegut states it, is that we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

First published 1961