The Immortal King Rao

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Dystopian / Vara, Vauhini
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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"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.

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Back and Forth; In and Out of the Lives of King and Athena Rao submitted by ekjensen on June 26, 2023, 12:54pm The rise and fall of Indian-born IT software guru, King Rao, seems confusing at the start of this read, and his daughter Athena narrates in the first person in between chapters which adds to some disconnect. King Rao's childhood in India continues to be interwoven even to the end of the book. Despite the inconsistency of the flashbacks, the book ends with interesting spoiler alerts!