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.
Winner of the Hugo Award.
Editorial Reviews
"The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career." New York Times
About the Author
Over a writing career that spanned three decades, Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film, notably Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, as well as television's The Man in the High Castle. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, including the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and between 2007 and 2009, the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
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This definitive edition of Kafka’s final great work contains fragments deleted by Kafka and restored by his biographer Max Brod as appendices that “allow the reader to catch a glimpse of Kafka’s creative imagination at work” (Times Literary Supplement)](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ezptpblrxu/images/stencil/500x659/products/1506/2582/TheCastle1__91737.1699995115.jpg?c=2 "Kafka's most autobiographical work of fiction is the haunting, ironic tale of a traveler known only as K. and his endless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority to gain admittance to “the Castle.” Hailed by some critics as the great religious allegory of the twentieth century—“This [is the] story of an incorrigible believer”—(Thomas Mann)—and by others as its most emphatically antireligious work —“The search for ultimate meanings…soon attains a sad absurdity” (Irving Howe)—K.’s entrapment in his quixotic quest remains a multilayered enigma for generations to come.
This definitive edition of Kafka’s final great work contains fragments deleted by Kafka and restored by his biographer Max Brod as appendices that “allow the reader to catch a glimpse of Kafka’s creative imagination at work” (Times Literary Supplement)")
