- Air travel, Airports, Fiction, Storytelling
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.
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Contemporary, prestige, grave and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Rana Dasgupta
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 383
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial, Black Cat
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007182138
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