The immortal King Rao : a novel / Vauhini Vara.
"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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393541755
- Physical Description: 374 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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Subject: | Involuntary memory > Fiction. Biotechnology > Fiction. Fathers and daughters > Fiction. |
Genre: | Dystopian fiction. |
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