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Title Statement | The immortal King Rao: a novel / Vauhini Vara. |
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Author | Vara, Vauhini, 1982- |
Publication | ©2022New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company,[2022] |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 374 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780393541755 0393541754 |
Other Number | 4407446 |
Summary | 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? |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Stockholders--Fiction |
Biotechnology--Fiction | |
Memory--Fiction | |
Climatic changes--Fiction | |
Fathers and daughters--Fiction | |
By Location | India--Fiction |
Washington (State)--Fiction | |
By Genre | Dystopias |
Science fiction |