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9780802170095: Tokyo Cancelled
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ISBN 10: 0802170099 ISBN 13: 9780802170095
Editorial: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005

Sinopsis

Thirteen 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 one another stories. Thus begins Rana Dasgupta's Canterbury Tales for our times.

In the spirit of Borges and Calvino, Dasgupta's writing combines an energetically modern landscape with a timeless, beguiling fairy-tale ethos, while bringing to life a cast of extraordinary individuals-some lost, some confused, some happy-in a world that remains ineffable, inexplicable, and wonderful.

A Ukrainian merchant is led by a wingless bird back to a lost lover; Robert De Niro's son masters the transubstantiation of matter and turns it against his enemies; a man who manipulates other people's memories has to confront his own past; a Japanese entrepreneur risks losing everything in his obsession with a doll; a mute Turkish girl is left alone in the house of a German man who is mapping the world.

Told by people on a journey, these are stories about lives in transit, stories that grow into an epic cycle about the hopes and dreams and disappointments that connect people everywhere.

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Reseña del editor

Thirteen 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 one another stories. Thus begins Rana Dasgupta's Canterbury Tales for our times. In the spirit of Borges and Calvino, Dasgupta's writing combines an energetically modern landscape with a timeless, beguiling fairy-tale ethos, while bringing to life a cast of extraordinary individuals-some lost, some confused, some happy-in a world that remains ineffable, inexplicable, and wonderful. A Ukrainian merchant is led by a wingless bird back to a lost lover; Robert De Niro's son masters the transubstantiation of matter and turns it against his enemies; a man who manipulates other people's memories has to confront his own past; a Japanese entrepreneur risks losing everything in his obsession with a doll; a mute Turkish girl is left alone in the house of a German man who is mapping the world. Told by people on a journey, these are stories about lives in transit, stories that grow into an epic cycle about the hopes and dreams and disappointments that connect people everywhere.

Reseña del editor

Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airpot. 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 one another stories. In what "The Wall Street Journal Asia has hailed as a "global citizen narrative." Rana Dasgupta has crafted a "Canterbury Tales for our times. In the spirit of Borges and Calvino, Dasgupta's writing combines an energetically modern landscape with a timeless, beguiling fairy-tale ethos, invoking timeless tales such as Rapunzed, Bluebeard, and the Prodigal Son, while bringing to life a cast of extraodinary individuals--some lost, some confused, some happy--in a world that remaines ineffable, inexplicable, and wonderful. A Ukrainian merehant is led by a wingless bird back to a lost lover; Robert De Niro's son masters the transubstantiation of matter and turns it against his enemies; a man who manipulates other people's memories has to confront his own past; a Japanese entreprenur risks losing everything in his obsession with a doll; a mute Turkish girl is left alone in the house of a German man who is mapping the world... Told by people on a journey, these are stories about lives in transit, stories from the great citiexs--New York, Istanbul. Delhi. Lagos. Paris. Buenos Aires--that grow into an epic cycle about the hopes and dreams and disappointments that connect people everywhere.

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Editorial
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802170099
ISBN 13 
9780802170095
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
400
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