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![]() Dick soon has everyone questioning what is real… The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a book within a book, an alternative history within an alternative history. In the background lurks Hawthorne Abendsen, the author of an alternative history novel popular at the time, despite it being banned by the Nazis. Tagomi, a Japanese trade official, Bob Childan, an antiques dealer, Frank Frink, a jewelry maker, Frink’s ex-wife Juliana, a judo instructor, and Joe Cinnadella, a truck driver. These everyday people make up the main characters of the book. As is common in a lot of Dick’s writing, ordinary people dealing with unusual or extraordinary events are the focal point of TMITHC. ![]() The story concentrates on events occurring in California, now part of the ‘Pacific States of America’ controlled by the Japanese. America is occupied by both the Germans and the Japanese. ![]() Often considered to be Dick’s best work, as well as his most mainstream, The Man in the High Castle imagines a future in which Germany, Italy and Japan won the Second World War. ![]()
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