{"product_id":"9780393541755","title":"The Immortal King Rao: A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction • One of \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 100 Notable books of 2022 • One of \u003cem\u003eNPR's\u003c\/em\u003e Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year by \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVox\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e Shortlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize \"A monumental achievement.\" —Justin Taylor, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \"A premonitory, daring book.\" —Mallika Rao, \u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e \"Brilliant and beautifully written.\" —Alex Preston, \u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Immortal King Rao\u003c\/em\u003e, written by a former \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025136042224,"sku":"9780393541755","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393541755_p0.jpg?v=1763697393","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393541755","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}