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Tokyo CancelledThirteen 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
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 03/31/2005
ISBN: 9780802170095
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.50w x 1.06d
Review Citations: Library Journal 04/01/2005 pg. 84
Publishers Weekly 04/04/2005 pg. 43
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 78
Booklist 05/15/2005 pg. 1634
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/15/2005 pg. 74
Library Journal 01/01/2005
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2005 pg. 246
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They are a little larger than I thought, however, they will be perfect for what I need them for.
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They serve the purpose
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These corner shelves are just what I wanted to hold our modem and router on one and a small lamp on the upper. The little ledge makes me feel confident that the devices won't easily be knocked off accidentally. My husband, a retired contractor, installed them so they are level.
They are made of pressed board with a laminate veneer of some sort. The laminate arrived damaged on one of the shelves, but I wanted to use two of them right away so a dab of paint will cover the damage if it's placed in an inconspicuous spot.
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Love the them. They look so good in the corner with pics on it n vase with bird of paradise in it. Going to buy more.
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