Tokyo Cancelled

Tokyo Cancelled is the debut novel by British Indian novelist Rana Dasgupta. The novel narrates the stories told by thirteen different passengers stranded in an airport, each telling a separate tale to pass the time. Tokyo Cancelled presents short stories tenuously linked together by their use of fairy-tale like narratives, with short interludes between the narratives which link the tales together. These tales, whilst having little-to-no interaction with each other, all present the overarching themes of modern globalization and metamorphosis, as well as links into the magic realism genre. The novel was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (UK) and the Hutch Crossword Book Award (India). One tale from the book was short-listed for the BBC National Short Story Prize.