num_pages: 247
description: 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 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
language: English
title: The Man in the High Castle
titlecomplete: The Man in the High Castle
characters: Rudolf Wegener, Robert Childan, Hawthorne Abendsen, Nobusuke Tagomi, Paul Kasoura, Ed McCarthy, Juliana Frink, Joe Cinnadella, Wyndam-Matson, Frank Frink, Betty Kasoura
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Alternate History, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 206165
places: California, San Francisco, California
awards: awardedAt: -220896000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award
publisher: Berkley