A rare moral thriller in the tradition ofFahrenheit 451, this stunning work from the author ofIshmaelis set in a white-washed alternate world where Nazis won the war (Village Voice)

Daniel Quinn, well known forIshmaela life-changing book for readers the world overonce again turns the tables and creates an otherworld that is very like our own, yet fascinating beyond words. Imagine that Nazi Germany was the first to develop an atomic bomb and the Allies surrendered. America was never bombed, occupied, or even invaded, but was nonetheless forced to recognize Nazi world dominance. The Nazis continued to press their campaign to rid the planet of mongrel races until eventually the worldfrom Capetown to Tokyowas populated by only white faces. Two thousand years in the future, people dont remember, or much care, about this distant past. The reality is that to be human is to be Caucasian, and what came before was literally ancient history having nothing to do with those then living.

Now imagine that reincarnation is real, that souls migrate over time from one living creature to another, and that a soul that once animated an American black woman living at the time of World War II now animates an Aryan in Quinns new worldand that due to a traumatic accident, memories of this earlier incarnation assert themselves.

Compared by readers and critics alike to1984andBrave New World, After Dachauis a new dystopian classic with much to say about our own time, and the dynamics of human history.