The Man In The High Castle
Trade paperback edition in acceptable condition. Slight staining to front cover. Excellent reading copy. The inspiration for the Amazon Original series by the same name.
“Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small…and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”
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. 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.
Trade paperback edition in acceptable condition. Slight staining to front cover. Excellent reading copy. The inspiration for the Amazon Original series by the same name.
“Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small…and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”
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. 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.
Trade paperback edition in acceptable condition. Slight staining to front cover. Excellent reading copy. The inspiration for the Amazon Original series by the same name.
“Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small…and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”
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. 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.
ISBN 978-0-547-57248-2
Philip Dick
1962
Hugo Award Winner