# The Cat's Table

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- Book: [The Cat's Table](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ondaatje/the-cats-table) ([The Cat's Table.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ondaatje/the-cats-table.md))
- Authors: [Michael Ondaatje](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ondaatje)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0774-441-8
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2012-06-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can...