The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Essentials)

Philip K. Dick

ISBN 10: 0241968097 / ISBN 13: 9780241968093

Published by Penguin Books, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Essentials)
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241968097
• ISBN 13: 9780241968093
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES

''Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.''

America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies. . .

From the Back Cover

Now an Amazon Original series

The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick s career. New York Times

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

This harrowing, Hugo Award winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

Philip K. Dick (1928 1982) wrote 121 short stories and 45 novels and is considered one of the most visionary writers of the twentieth century. His work is included in the Library of America and has been translated intomore than twenty-fivelanguages. Eleven works have been adapted to film, including Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly.
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