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March 30, 2005
An Interview with Rana Dasgupta
The Guardian interviews Rana Dasgpta, whose debut novel (now out in the UK), Tokyo Cancelled, "stands out from the crowd for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it's not, strictly speaking, a novel at all. Dasgupta himself describes it as a 'story cycle', a term which hints at the fascination with traditional modes of storytelling that permeates a book in which the action - such as it is - takes place in the definitively contemporary setting of an airport terminal."
"With the literary world on the lookout for a next-generation Rushdie or Seth, it's no surprise that much has been made of Dasgupta's Indo-Anglian literary heritage, and not without foundation: there are strong Rushdien echoes in the tone of the framing narrative in particular."
Continue reading Narrative Planes, an interview with Rana Dasgupta.
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