The Man in the High Castle

Summary

Set in an alternate 1962 where the Axis powers won the Second World War, this novel depicts a divided America occupied by Japan in the west and Nazi Germany in the east. Several characters consult the I Ching and pass around a banned novel that imagines an Allied victory, blurring the line between which reality is true. Dick uses the alternate history to probe questions of authenticity, fate, and the nature of reality itself.