Tokyo cancelled

Blurb

Tokyo Cancelled is Rana Dasgupta's debut novel, published in 2005, and revolves around thirteen different passengers stranded in an airport, each telling a separate tale to pass the time. The novel, considered a work of the magic realist genre, or perhaps irrealism, presents short stories tenuously linked together by their use of fairy-tale like narratives, as well as an overarching theme of modern globalization. The novel was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Hutch Crossword Book Award. One tale from the book was short-listed for the BBC National Short Story Prize.
Tokyo Cancelled can be read as a compendium of fairy-tales from the modern world, expressing the dark and irrealistic side of life in the 21st century. Unlike the idealized, moralistic endings of classic fairy-tales, the modern world cannot be so easily read.