{"product_id":"tokyo-cancelled-1","title":"Tokyo Cancelled","description":"\u003cp\u003eA major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style with an energetically modern worldscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \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\n          \u003cp\u003eRobert De Niro's lovechild explores the magical properties of a packet of Oreos; 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 a German cartographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \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 into a novel about the hopes and dreams and disappointments that connect people everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \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":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55285800534360,"sku":"9780007182138","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780007182138_6e6c4804-5f8d-4bca-af57-d2a1f46f0655.jpg?v=1778669164","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/tokyo-cancelled-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}