The Immortal King Rao (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393541755)

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.

Author: Vauhini Vara
ISBN-10: 0393541754
ISBN-13: 9780393541755
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2021 pg. 17
Booklist 03/01/2022 pg. 22
Publishers Weekly 03/28/2022
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2022
Library Journal 05/13/2022 pg. 1
BookPage 05/01/2022