by Michael Ondaatje · Random House Uk · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099554424
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«The Cat's Table» is the novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by Random House UK in paperback (384 pages, in English).
In «The Cat's Table», an eleven-year-old boy embarks in Colombo bound for England. Seated at the humble «cat's table» for meals, he shares the voyage with eccentric adults and two boys, Cassius and Ramadhin, in a succession of adventures and discoveries. At night, the boys spy on a chained prisoner whose fate haunts them.
«The Cat's Table» was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Hammett Prize; this paperback edition was published in 2012.
For readers of literary, historical and coming-of-age fiction, and for book clubs interested in sea voyages.
Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
