The Man in the High Castle

It is 1962, fifteen years after the Axis powers won the war, and the former United States lies partitioned between a Japanese-run Pacific coast and a Nazi-controlled East. In San Francisco, antique dealer Robert Childan caters to Japanese collectors, war veteran Frank Frink risks everything on a jewelry venture, and his ex-wife Juliana drifts toward a stranger with a dangerous secret. Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side. A standalone high point of Philip K. Dick's alternate-history and paranoid-reality fiction.