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The immortal king rao A novel

Vara, Vauhini. (Author).

Summary: Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Nominated for the 2022 NBCC John Leonard Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vox, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Literary Hub In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government. In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King's daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy—literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts. With climate change raging, Athena has come to believe that saving the planet and its Shareholders will require a radical act of communion—and so she sets out to tell the truth to the world's Shareholders, in entrancing sensory detail, about King's childhood on a South Indian coconut plantation; his migration to the U.S. to study engineering in a world transformed by globalization; his marriage to the ambitious artist with whom he changed the world; and, ultimately, his invention, under self-exile, of the most ambitious creation of his life—Athena herself. The Immortal King Rao, written by a former Wall Street Journal technology reporter, is a resonant debut novel obliterating the boundaries between literary and speculative fiction, the historic and the dystopian, confronting how we arrived at the age of technological capitalism and where our actions might take us next.

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  • ISBN: 9780393541762 (electronic bk)
  • Physical Description: electronic
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  • Publisher: 2022.

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Electronic reproduction. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Subject: Technology and civilization
Involuntary memory
Fathers and daughters
Dalits
Climatic changes
Biotechnology
Technology and civilization -- Fiction
Climatic changes -- Fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Dalits -- India -- Fiction
Biotechnology -- Fiction
Involuntary memory -- Fiction
Fiction
Fantasy
Literature
Genre: Science fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Science fiction.
Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
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