Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, Technical University of Darmstadt (Institut fur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft), course: Narrative Cycles, language: English, abstract: Rana Dasgupta's short story cycle Tokyo Cancelled" was first published in 2005. Thecycle contains 13 short stories, which are held together by a frame narration that takesplace on an airport, where 13 people spend the night together, telling different fictionalstories to each other in order to make the stay as pleasant as possible. The focalizationshifts throughout the course of the stories depending on who is the protagonist in thestory. In the case of The speed bump , the focalizer is Zack and the story is told by anauthorial narrator.