Friday Reads: The Man in the High Castle

From The Folio Society:
In 1962 Philip K. Dick conjured a new vision of our world – a twisted simulacrum in which the Axis Powers have won the Second World War. America is now divided: the eastern United States is the puppet of a maniacal German Reich, while the western Pacific seaboard is governed by a militaristic, yet spiritual, Japanese dictatorship. Amongst the complexities of this new existence, a group of unremarkable people – an American- Jewish craftsman, a judo instructor, a Japanese diplomat – play out their everyday lives, each striving to uncover a remnant of goodness in the shadow of a gathering evil. As their narratives intersect, Dick poses larger metaphysical questions concerning the authentication of history, perception and the building blocks of destiny.

Three-quarter-bound in cloth with a Modigliani paper side, printed and blocked with a design by Shotopop
Set in Utopia with Market Street Neon
272 pages
Frontispiece and 7 colour illustrations
Slipcase blocked with a design by Shotopop
9″ × 6¼”

 

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