Dick, tormented and passionate character, wondered constantly wanders in mystical or paranoid delusions, according to the periods of his life. Here he imagines a "Uchronie", a situation that could have happened, but .. But in fact, what is real and what is illusion? Immediately began the novel, one comes to wonder where the fantasy ends and where does gravity of what is tangible, undeniable, certain? As in all his novels, Dick makes us doubt, takes us into worlds that intersect, overlap, are similar, sometimes ending in the form of dead ends ... The Americans have they lost the war, as is believes? Or a resistance she organizes for gradually leaving the brutal grip of the Nazis and the Japanese? Dick, as relevant, multiplies the false trails and there is a curveball: a novel in the novel, which would be the key to the mystery. Guided by the I Ching, the Book of Changes, Dick throws the coins as he writes, and lets so inspired by the choice of the oracle. But this seemingly risky choice does not prevent building an exciting novel, structured and rigorous, as always adorned with all kinds of small fragments of Life, if felt so intimately experienced ... In fact, what characterizes this author, this is the way it has to touch us, always so sensitive, tormented, and excelling in the difficult art to convey the slightest vibration of his soul. Dick knows to go to the deepest part of his drive, emotions, and it does so through the faculty of empathy as he speaks in his other novel, "Blade Runner". Empathy is the key to address this fascinating writer, who always knows how to make our hearts flutter, affect us, move us, through his characters, whether tormented them too. Not to be missed.
