“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.”/5(). · 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 a novel by the critically acclaimed Canadian author and poet Michael Ondaatje. Using his own experiences traveling from the newly independent Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to England when he was eleven, Ondaatje creates a fictional version of this three-week ocean trip.
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Seated at The Cat's Table: Michael ("Mynah"): the protagonist, 11 years old. Ramadhin: a quiet boy, 11 years old. Cassius: a rowdy daredevil boy, 12 years old. Max Mazappa (stage name Sunny Meadows): pianist with the ship's orchestra in his 30s. Miss Perinetta Lasqueti: a wan-looking spinster in her. 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. This allows Ondaatje to lay out an extraordinary. Initially The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje struck me as a rather bland story populated with a host of rather improbable characters and told in a very episodic manner. As it developed, the book took on the characteristics of a Bildungsroman in which a physical journey to a new life (in this case an ocean voyage) acted as an extended metaphor for the passage from childhood to the beginnings of adolescence.
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