A formally ambitious debut novel about family, technology, caste, capitalism and the afterlife of corporate power.

King Rao rises from a Dalit coconut-farming family in India to become a tech billionaire in America, founder of a vast global platform that eventually reorganises social, political and intimate life. The novel is narrated by his daughter Athena, who is raised in isolation on an island and left to reckon with both her father’s history and the system he helped build.

It moves between family saga, speculative fiction, corporate dystopia and postcolonial critique, functioning all at once an origin myth of a tech empire, a daughter’s testimony and finally, a warning about the way private platforms become world-making infrastructure. 

Grove Press UK trade paperback, first published in Great Britain in 2022. Full number line visible. Good second-hand condition, with light handling/shelfwear.