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Title: Immortal King Rao, The
Author: VARA VAUHINI
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/08/2022
Imprint: GROVE PRESS
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
Spanning a century, The Immortal King Rao tells an epic story about power, modernity and family lineage, and introduces a bold new voice.
‘A brilliant and beautifully written book about capitalism and the patriarchy, about Dalit India and digital America, about power and family and love‘ – Alex Preston, Observer, ‘Fiction to look out for in 2022’
Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free?
Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao – literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father’s murder.
Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had a visionary idea: the personal computer known as the Coconut. His wife, Margie, was an artist with a marketing genius. Together they created a new world order, led by a corporate-run government. Athena’s future is now in the hands of its Shareholders – unless she can rejoin the Exes, a resistance group sustaining tech-free lifestyles on low-lying islands.
Lyrical, satirical and profound, The Immortal King Rao obliterates genre to confront the digital age. This gripping, brilliant debut poses an urgent question: can anyone – peasant laborers, convention-destroying entrepreneurs, radical anarchists, social-media followers – ever get free?
ISBN: 9781611854312
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm
Pages: 400