“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”
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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 journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’ s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry–and all that is worth saving.
Praise for
“The best Vonnegut novel yet!”
—John Irving
“Beautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading.”
USA Today
“A satire in the classic tradition . . . a dark vision, a heartfelt warning.”
The Detroit Free Press
“Interesting, engaging, sad and yet very funny . . . Vonnegut is still in top form. If he has no prescription for alleviating the pain of the human condition, at least he is a first-rate diagnostician.”
—Susan Isaacs,
Newsday
“Dark . . . original and funny.”
People
“A triumph of style, originality and warped yet consistent logic . . . a condensation, an evolution of Vonnegut’s entire career, including all the issues and questions he has pursued relentlessly for four decades.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Wild details, wry humor, outrageous characters . . .
is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A work of high comedy, sadness and imagination.”
The Denver Post
“Wacky wit and irreverent imagination .  . . and the full range of technical innovations have made [Vonnegut] America’s preeminent experimental novelist.”
The Minneapolis Star and Tribune