The cat's table
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury....
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- Full title :The cat's table / Michael Ondaatje.
Summary
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury....
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- Publication Date:2011.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
Notes
"This is a Borzoi book."
The Physical Object
- Description:269 p. ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780307700117, 0307700119
- oclc:on1311420681
- LC Classification:PR9199.3.O5
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
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