In this Hugo Award–winning alternative history classic—the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West. Slavery is legal once again, and surviving Jews hide under assumed identities. The story unfolds in America, 1962, where characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana and a secret Jew; Nobusuke Tagomi, a Japanese trade minister in San Francisco uncertain of his position; and Juliana Frink, Frank's ex-wife with unknown significance, gradually discover how their lives intertwine. The narrative hints that the key to understanding their distorted reality might lie with a reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, whose novel describes an alternate outcome where the US won the war. The set dystopian vision showcases Philip K. Dick's profound creativity.