Vauhini Vara has been a journalist and editor for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic, and is the prize-winning author of The Immortal King Rao. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
"Utterly, thrillingly brilliant. From the first unforgettable page
to the last, The Immortal King Rao is a form-inventing,
genre-exploding triumph. Vauhini Vara’s bravura debut has reshaped
my brain and expanded my heart."
*R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries*
"In this richly imagined saga spanning past, present, and future,
Vauhini Vara brings us a visionary who makes the world in his
image, and the strong-willed daughter whose life could be his final
legacy. Vara’s brilliance is matched only by her heart, and this
unforgettable debut will challenge what you think you know about
genius, capitalism, consciousness, and what it means to be
human."
*Anna North, author of Outlawed*
"Vara comes out the gate with a masterwork: a book that is three
great novels in one–the tale of a thriving and chaotic Dalit clan
in the first decades of independent India; an immigrant success
story in ’80s America; and a dystopian nightmare of the post-Trump
future."
*Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs*
"The Immortal King Rao is an odyssey of the grandest scale,
spanning over a century and charting a Dalit immigrant's rise to
world power. Vauhini Vara fuses intricate family lore
with the history of tech solutionism and capitalist demagoguery,
pointing forward to a dangerously likely future of corporate
dominion; she writes with the meticulous clarity of a longform
journalist, the explosive force of a Trident missile, and the
ambition of her own brilliant protagonists."
*Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens*
"An exacting writer of the digital age, journalist Vara makes her
debut with a trippy novel that marries the family saga with a
biotech satire. … Vara has a gift for humanizing the
invisible labor that happens behind our screens. Who, if anyone,
can really separate themselves from the digital ties that bind
us?"
*Jessica Jacolbe - Vulture*
"A brilliant and beautifully written book about capitalism and the
patriarchy, about Dalit India and digital America, about power and
family and love."
*Alex Preston - The Observer*
"A fully imagined world: propulsive, prophetic, dizzying."
*Jeet Thayil, author of Names of the Women*
"An astonishing debut. An amazing imagination. Vara's voice is
thrilling, original, dynamic and ever-surprising as her characters
move from world to world, from the real to the fantastic, examining
the myriad contradictory shapes in which love can appear."
*Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of The Last Queen*
"Alternating between Rao’s childhood in a small Indian village, his
early student days in the US, and the dystopian society in which
Athena has to function, Vara’s original debut delivers challenging
and weighty themes with a sure hand."
*Poornima Apte - Booklist (starred review)*
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