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The Immortal King Rao : A Novel

Author :  Vauhini Vara

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Country
India
Publisher
Fourth Estate, New Delhi
ISBN 9789354897771
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info 374p.; 23 cm.
Product Weight 630 gms.
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"A fully imagined world: propulsive, prophetic, dizzying" - Jeet Thayil, author of Names of the Women "An astonishing debut. An amazing imagination" - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of The Last Queen "A masterwork-a book that is three great novels in one" - Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs 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.

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