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Synopsis
A masterpiece of the science-fiction genre, and the most famous novel by paranoid genius Philip K. Dick, THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE (1962) won a Hugo Award for its imagination of a parallel reality America 20 years after the Allies lost World War II. Dick envisions an America split in half between Japanese and German overlords, with the Nazis ruling the East and the Japanese controlling the West. In this alternate world, San Francisco has become a strange colonial city, where Americans seek to please the Japanese upper class, and learn to live by the philosophy of the I-Ching. Meanwhile, in one of Dick's notorious convolutions, a banned book titled "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" circulates in the literary underworld, a book that proposes a world where the Axis lost the war., In an alternate world in which Hitler's forces won World War II, a man discovers that the world he lives in is an alternate one, and that the real world, where Hitler was defeated, is available only through the pages of a novel.
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail."
Industry Reviews
"Perhaps the strangest--and the best--World War II rethinking was 'The Man in the High Castle', by Philip K. Dick, in which a defeated America is ruled east of the Mississippi by Germany and west by Japan, and the theme is the necessity and impossibility of indigenous art among a defeated people. The title character, by the way, never appears; he lives in the castle high over Malibu, where he is said to be writing a novel in which America won World War II--we are all characters in his book!"
New York Times Book Review - Donald E. Westlake (07/09/1995)
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