The Cat's Table

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The Cat's Table is a beautiful novel from renouned poet and author, Michael Ondaatje.

In the early 1950s in Ceylon an eleven-year-old boy is put alone aboard a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the insignificant "cat's table"—as far from the Captain's table as can be—with two other lone boys and a small group of strange fellow passengers: one appears to be a shadowy figure from the British Secret Service; another a mysterious thief, another seems all too familiar with the dangerous ways of women and crime. On… Keep Reading