(Ebook) The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara ISBN 1611854415, B09N62ST97

(Ebook) The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara ISBN 1611854415, B09N62ST97

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"...not a neat allegory... it nevertheless insists that we pay attention to relationships between seemingly diverse commodities (coconuts on the one hand, computers on the other), and how difficult it is to wrench them from systems bent on extracting their value."  -  Lauren Nelson, Los Angeles Review Of BooksAthena 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."Rao is on the short side for a multigenerational family saga and sweeping social epic... Rao might appear at first like a welterweight among heavies. Don’t be fooled... Vara... is a minimalist’s maximalist, leavening lushness of language with economy of execution."  -  Justin Taylor, New York Times Book ReviewLyrical, 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 labourers, convention-destroying entrepreneurs, radical anarchists, social-media followers - ever g