Michael Ondaatje The Cat s Table 2011 Retail EPUB eBook-BitBook

| The Cat's Table |
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| DATE: 2012-06-06 SIZE: 1,91MB DISKS: 01_______4,77MB PAGES: |
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| PUBLISHER: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group GENRE: Fiction |
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| AUTHOR: Michael Ondaatje |
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| FORMAT: EPUB PROTECTION: DRM EDITION: |
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| URL: http://is gd/JCYE4m |
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| LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-0-307-70045-2 |
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: n the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for :
: England -- a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed:
: at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two :
: other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the :
: Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys :
: become involved in the worlds and stories of the adults around them, :
: tumbling from one adventure and delicious discovery to another, 'bursting :
: all over the place like freed mercury'. And at night, the boys spy on a :
: shackled prisoner -- his crime and fate a galvanising mystery that will :
: haunt them forever.As the narrative moves between the decks and holds of :
: the ship and the boy's adult years, it tells a spellbinding story about the:
: difference between the magical openness of childhood and the burdens of :
: earned understanding -- about a lifelong journey that began unexpectedly :
: with a spectacular sea voyage, when all on board were 'free of the :
: realities of the earth'.With the ocean liner a brilliant microcosm for the :
: floating dream of childhood, The Cat's Table is a vivid, poignant and :
: thrilling book, full of Ondaatje's trademark set-pieces and breathtaking :
: images: a story told with a child's sense of wonder by a novelist at the :
: very height of his powers. :