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Today I share with you a book review on Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table. Chapters:00:00 Plot Summary04:18 Female Characters06:3...
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In “The Cat’s Table,” Ondaatje seems to lead the reader on a journey through three deeply submerged weeks in his own memory — from the year 1954, when, at age 11, he traveled on the ocean...
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,...
Apr 22, 2017 · The first half is glorious; then Ondaatje decides it's necessary to bolt some plot details on, and then carries the story far too far away from the ship.
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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.
- Michael Ondaatje
In The Cat's Table, Ondaatje returns to Sri Lanka as the story follows three boys who, along with a cast of eccentrics, make their way from Colombo to England. By turns adventurous, mysterious, and wistful, the novel traces the search for belonging amidst strangers and strange lands.
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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.
