TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vara,Vauhini
TI  - The immortal King Rao: a novel 
SN  - 9780393541755
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Involuntary memory
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Technology and civilization
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - "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?"--
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