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Reading Michael Ondaatje’s mesmerizing new novel, “The Cat’s Table,” is like being guided, just as surely and just as magically, through the author’s lustrous visions.
- ‘The Cat’s Table’ - The New York Times
“We seem to be at the cat’s table,” the woman called Miss...
- ‘The Cat’s Table’ - The New York Times
Oct 5, 2011 · “The Cat’s Table” is about an 11-year-old boy, “green as he could be about the world,” who takes an indelible sea voyage in the early 1950s. The boy’s name is Michael, as is the author’s, and...
Oct 4, 2011 · A spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England.
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“We seem to be at the cat’s table,” the woman called Miss Lasqueti said. “We’re in the least privileged place.” It was clear we were located far from the Captain’s Table, which was ...
Oct 1, 2011 · THE CAT'S TABLE. by Michael Ondaatje ‧RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 2011. Elegiac, mature and nostalgic—a fine evocation of childhood, and of days irretrievably past. bookshelf. shop now. amazon bookshop. A graceful, closely observed novel that blends coming-of-age tropes with a Conradian sea voyage.
- Michael Ondaatje
A spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England.
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Jun 12, 2012 · The questions, discussion topics, and reading list that follow are intended to enhance your reading group’s discussion of The Cat’s Table, the luminous new novel by Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient.
