The cat's table / Michael Ondaatje.
From Michael Ondaatje: an electrifying new novel, by turns thrilling and deeply moving -- one of his most vividly rendered and compelling works of fiction to date. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly "Cat's Table" with an eccentric and unforgettable group of grownups and two other boys. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys find themselves immersed in the worlds and stories of the adults around them. At night they spy on a shackled prisoner -- his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. Looking back from deep within adulthood, and gradually moving back and forth from the decks and holds of the ship to the years that follow the narrator unfolds a spellbinding and layered tale about the magical, often forbidden discoveries of childhood and the burdens of earned understanding, about a life-long journey that began unexpectedly with a sea voyage.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307401427
- ISBN: 9780771068645 :
- Physical Description: 269 pages
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : McClelland & Stewart, 2011.
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General Note: | Various publishers, dates, and paging. |
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Subject: | Passenger ships > Fiction. Boys > Fiction. |
Genre: | Adventure stories, Canadian. Sea stories. |
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Hudson's Hope Public Library | FIC FIC OND (Text) | BHH038722 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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