The Man in the High Castle (Hugo Award Winner) [B0914]

2011 PB printing of the 1962 classic, in nice clean condition. In this Hugo Award-winning alternative history classic-and 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 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 realize that something is not quite right about their world. 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, 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A dizzying achievement, less Sci-Fi, more seance with a quantum universe. PKD throws you into the middle of a universe where the Germans and Japanese won WW2, introduces you to a cast of interwoven characters, the everyday people living in his alternate reality, stays with them over a couple of hundred pages, then leaves with no ends tied and no conclusions made, much as life might. Overall a puzzling intricate book that reads like a thriller, delivering ideas like a philosophy text. Remarkable, readable and staying with me long after I've closed the final page."; "A nightmarish world. Super interesting to read especially in the context of America today. The lack of depth Dick gives to his characters is made up in the world building and ultimate fiction that is revealed at the end. Pretty damn solid."; "Most of it was really good but really dragged toward the end. Maybe I also didn't get the ending. Was this a critique of the Cold War? Or was this a critique of American society post war?"