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The Immortal King Rao: A Novel [WINNER OF THE TIMES OF INDIA JK PAPER AUTHER AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT 2023, AND THE ATTA GALATTA BANGALORE LITERAT Audiobook, by Vauhini Vara Play Audiobook Sample

The Immortal King Rao: A Novel [WINNER OF THE TIMES OF INDIA JK PAPER AUTHER AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT 2023, AND THE ATTA GALATTA BANGALORE LITERAT Audiobook

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Read By: Pallavi Bharti Publisher: HarperCollins India Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9789354897832

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

35

Longest Chapter Length:

40:09 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

21:47 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

"A fully imagined world: propulsive, prophetic, dizzying" - Jeet Thayil, author of Names of the Women

"An astonishing debut. An amazing imagination" - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of The Last Queen

"A masterwork-a book that is three great novels in one" - Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs

In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government.

In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King's daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy-literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts.

With climate change raging, Athena has come to believe that saving the planet and its Shareholders will require a radical act of communion - and so she sets out to tell the truth to the world's Shareholders, in entrancing sensory detail, about King's childhood on a South Indian coconut plantation; his migration to the U.S. to study engineering in a world transformed by globalization; his marriage to the ambitious artist with whom he changed the world; and, ultimately, his invention, under self-exile, of the most ambitious creation of his life - Athena herself.

The Immortal King Rao 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.

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“A brilliant and beautifully written book about capitalism and the patriarchy, about Dalit India and digital America, about power and family and love.”

— The Observer (London)

Quotes

  • "A masterwork-a book that is three great novels in one."

    — Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs

Awards

  • Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize
  • An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
  • A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
  • Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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About Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara has worked as a Wall Street Journal technology reporter and as the business editor for the New Yorker. Her fiction has been honored by the O. Henry Prize and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. From a Dalit background, she lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.