The Cats Table
What had there been before such a ship in my life? A launch in Trincomalee harbour? A dugout canoe on a river journey? But I could never imagine the grandeur of this castle that was to cross the sea'. There were always fishing boats on our horizon. In the early 1950s, an ele… Celý popis ↓
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The Cats Table
What had there been before such a ship in my life? A launch in Trincomalee harbour? A dugout canoe on a river journey?
But I could never imagine the grandeur of this castle that was to cross the sea'. There were always fishing boats on our horizon. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner in Colombo bound for England.
At mealtimes he is seated at the lowly 'cat's table' - as far from the Captain's table as can be - with a ragtag group of adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship crosses the Indian Ocean the boys tumble from one adventure to another,and at night they spy on a shackled prisoner - his crime and fate a mystery that will haunt them forever...
Parametre
- Výrobca
- Vintage Publishing
- Autor
- Michael Ondaatje
- Počet strán
- 384
- Rok vydania
- 2012
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