The Cat's Table

One of the most admirable and enthralling literary novels of the year * Daily Mail *Extraordinary * Guardian *Superbly poised between the magic of innocence and the melancholy of experience * The Economist *Michael Ondaatje’s impressive new novel, containing dreams and fantasy between a ship’s flanks…is, in the most etymological way, a wonderful novel: one full of wonders – Philip Hensher * Daily Telegraph *Atmospheric, elegiac and at times, like Ondaatje’s most famous novel, The English Patient, unbearably poignant – Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *I love this book: the boys running wild on the long sea voyage, the slow revelation of the adult world they don’t fully understand, the loss of the past and the beginning of the future, and even a sort of thriller in there! And the beauty of the sentences. Perfection – Salman RushdieWondrous * Financial Times *Part memoir, complete masterpiece… Written with tenderness, wisdom and sharp emotional recall, this is an exuberant elegy to innocence – Maggie Fergusson * Intelligent Life *Grave and playful at the same time, beautifully written and moving * The Times *It’s impossible to explain through any discussion of plot and character the hypnotic brilliance of The Cat’s Table. The joy of boyhood and the darkness at its edges are conveyed in sense of extraordinary imagination… It is entirely…well, Ondaatje-esque – Kamila Shamsie * Guardian, Books of the Year *

Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels; a memoir, Running in the Family; a non-fiction book on film, The Conversations- Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film; and several books of poetry, including The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting. The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018, and was made into a film directed by Anthony Minghella. Anil’s Ghost was awarded the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize and the Prix Medicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

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