Kurt Vonnegut: Cat`s Cradle The book is about an author named Jonah who collects material for a book called „The day the world ended“. This book should be an account of what impotant Americans had done when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. So he contacts Newt Hoenikker the youngest of the three children of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, the father of the atomic bomb. After they wrote each other a few letters …showed first 75 words of 652 total…

…showed last 75 words of 652 total…to read it again .... „But what Dr. Breed didn`t know was that ICE-09 really existed – and that is was here on earth!“ Before that sentence the book is a little bit like a bad detecive-story – lulling, but after the conversation between Jonah and Dr. Breed you really want to know how the book ends but you also know that it won`t be a happy end at all! – and yuo`re right with that