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The Cat’s Table
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The Cat’s Table

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  • Michael Ondaatje
    Michael Ondaatje
    / Prose works

    The Cat’s Table (2011) chronicles a voyage from Ceylon to England in the 1950s from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy and his two comrades. Its title references the table farthest from the captain’s table on a cruise ship. In Warlight (2018) a teenage boy…

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    The Cat’s Table (2011) chronicles a voyage from Ceylon to England in the 1950s from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy and his two comrades. Its title references the table farthest from the captain’s table on a cruise ship. In Warlight (2018) a teenage boy…

    Read More