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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 Ti… (altro)
Ho letto questo libro negli anni 80 e mi ha colpito moltissimo. Guardare in una dimensione parallela è sempre interessante e Dick è ineccepibile nel suo racconto. Riesco a vedere le cupe atmosfere del post 2 guerra mondiale e delle caratteristiche dei personaggi. Un libro come pochi consigliato sicuramente ( )
A pensarci bene, non so nemmeno io cosa mi aspettassi da questo libro, però sono rimasta un po' delusa. Il tema è molto interessante, un mondo in cui Germania e Giappone hanno vinto la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, e devo dire che mi hanno colpito favorevolmente i brani tratti da La cavalletta. Purtroppo, però, questo continuo passare dalle vicende di un personaggio a quelle di un altro, senza approfondirle più di tanto, ha fatto si che il libro non mi coinvolgesse più di tanto. ( )
Interessante solo l'idea iniziale, per il resto l' ho trovato un libro molto noioso e confuso. Non sono riuscito ad immedesimarmi nè ad interessarmi particolarmente ad alcun personaggio Le ultime pagine le ho lette di corsa, sperando arrivasse presto la fine. ( )
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To my wife, Anne, without whose silence this book would never have been written
To my wife Tessa and my son Christopher, with great and awful love
Incipit
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For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail.
Citazioni
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They know a million tricks, those novelists...Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface. Yes, the novelist knows humanity how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed...all he's got to do is thump on the drum, and there's the response. And he laughing of course, behind his hand at the effect he gets. (p. 128)
At six-fifteen in the evening she finished the book. I wonder if Joe got to the end of it? she wondered. There's so much more in it than he understood. What is it Abendsen wanted to say? Nothing about his make-believe world. Am I the only one who knows? I'll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me - they just imagine they do.
Ultime parole
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She walked on without looking again at the Abendsen house and, as she walked, searching up and down the streets for a cab or a car, moving and bright and living, to take her back to her motel.
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 Ti