{"product_id":"9780007334483_tokyo-cancelled","title":"Tokyo Cancelled","description":"\u003cp\u003eA major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style to an energetically modern worldscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell each other stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert De Niro’s child, conceived in a Laundromat, masters the transubstantiation of matter and turns it against his enemies; a Ukrainian merchant is led by a wingless bird back to a lost lover; a man who edits other people’s memories has to confront his own past; a Chinese youth with amazing luck cuts men’s hair and cleans their ears; an entrepreneur risks losing everything in his obsession with a doll; a mute Turkish girl is left all alone in the house of German cartographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold by people on a journey, these are stories about lives in transit. Stories from the great cities – New York, Istanbul, Delhi, Lagos, Paris, Buenos Aires – that grow in to a novel about the hopes and dreams and disappointments that connect people everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDasgupta’s writing is utterly distinctive and fresh, so striking that it seems to come from the future and the past all at once, but in marrying a timeless mystery to an alert modernity, his cautionary tales manage to be reminiscent of both Ballard and Borges, depicting ordinary extraordinary individuals (some lost, some confused, some happy) in a world that remains ineffable, inexplicable, wonderful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rana Dasgupta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47275060723861,"sku":"9780007334483","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007334483.png?v=1776776305","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007334483_tokyo-cancelled","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}