Ebook {Epub PDF} The Cats Table by Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje's novel, "The Cat's Table", is the coming-of-age tale of an ll year-old boy named Michael who takes a day sea journey in the s.  · 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 Author: Liesl Schillinger.  · Ondaatje gives us the cat's table, the opposite of the captain's table, and the most undesirable dining assignment aboard the cruise ship Oronsay. Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

Buy The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 13 editions - starting at $ Shop now. 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 s, 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. Michael Ondaatje, Among Thieves The literary master discusses his fear of vampires, love of mongrels, and penchant for writing about pickpockets. [in The Cat's Table].

He makes every character, image and line resonate like a tuning fork Elegant and elegiac. Michael Ondaatje’s new novel, The Cat’s Table, describes the voyage of an eleven-year-old boy from Sri Lanka to England on the ship Oronsay in the s. The title refers to a moniker given to the dining table where the boy, also named Michael, sits with a motley group of other passengers, placed about as far from the high-society of the captain’s table as they can get. “The Cat’s Table is Ondaatje’s most accessible, most compelling novel to date. It may also be his finest Ondaatje’s prose is, as always, stunning The Cat’s Table is a breathtaking account not only of boyhood, but of its loss. It is a novel filled with utterly unique characters and situations, but universal in its themes, heartbreakingly so, and a journey the reader will never forget.”.