Classics
Humor
Historical fiction
1904
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Published in Spanish as Trampa 22
A bombardier, based in Italy during World War II, repeatedly tries to avoid flying bombing missions while his colonel tries to get him killed by demanding that he fly more and more missions.
What it is
War lived from the inside · it gets under your skin
What happens in it
War from the inside
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Who tells it
- A narrator who knows it all
- Prose
- Witty
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you want to laugh out loud
- you're drawn to the dark side of people
- you like a book that leaves you uneasy
Maybe not if…
- you're after something comforting
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