EAN: 9781611854312

THE IMMORTAL KING RAO - VAUHINI VARA KARTONIERT...

Vauhini Vara's lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel begins in India in the 1950s 
following a young man born into a Dalit family of coconut farmers in a remote village in Andhra
Pradesh. King Rao  as he comes to be known  later moves to the US  where he studies in Seattle
meeting the love of his life and his business partner  the smart and self-assured Margie. King
Rao ultimately rises up through Silicon Valley to become the most famous tech CEO in the world
and the leader of a powerful  corporate-owned global government. Yet he ultimately ends up
living on a remote island off the coast of Washington state  an exile from the world which he
has helped build. There  in a beautiful home on an otherwise deserted island  he brings up his
brilliant daughter  Athena. Shielded from the world's glances  in many ways she has an idyllic
childhood  but she will be forced to reexamine her father's past and take steps to try to
decide her own future. She is unlike other girls  and she will find the outside world much more
hostile than her father did when he left the coconut grove he called home. A profound and
moving novel about technology  consciousness and revolution  The Immortal King Rao asks how we
build the worlds in which we live  and whether we ever have the power to leave them?

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