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The Immortal King Rao : A Novel [WINNER OF THE TIMES OF INDIA JK PAPER AUTHER AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT 2023, AND THE ATTA GALATTA BANGALORE LITERAT

By Vauhini Vara

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About the book

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.

The Immortal King Rao 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.

Pages: 384

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara has worked as a journalist and an editor for The New YorkerThe Atlantic, and the New York Times MagazineHer fiction has been honored by the O. Henry Prize and the Rona JaffeFoundation. Her first novel, The Immortal King Rao, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize for fiction as well as the JK Paper–Times of India AutHER Award for best debut.

 

 

 

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