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The Man in the High Castle
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780547572482
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: Jan 24 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.05
Language: English
In this Hugo Award-winning alternative history classic--the basis for the Amazon Original series--the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West.
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In this dystopian world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San Francisco, unsure of his standing within the bureaucracy and Japan's with Germany; and Juliana Frink, Frank's ex-wife, who may be more important than she realizes.
These seemingly disparate characters gradually realize their connections to each other just as they start questioning the very nature of their reality. And it seems as though the answers might lie with Hawthorne Abendsen, a mysterious and reclusive author, whose best-selling novel describes a world in which the US won the War... The Man in the High Castle is Dick at his best, a masterpiece of philosophical science fiction giving readers a harrowing vision of the world that almost was.
The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career.--New York Times
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