So, for example, in Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the second world war extends to 1947, while for Deighton it ends in 1941. And Sansom, born in 1952, sets the main action of Dominion in that year, vividly dramatising a Britain foreign to the one remembered from his childhood.Ĭounter-factual fiction is subject to a phenomenon variously expressed in metaphors involving butterfly wings, loose threads in sweaters and lines of dominoes: pull out one thing and the rest unravels. Roth, extending his depiction of the Jewish experience in America, imagined a US in which antisemitism had become federal policy rather than a dirty social reflex. Although the field sounds crowded, one of the pleasures of these books is the way in which writers have found their own space, often through an autobiographical concern.
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