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Last
Update: January 23, 2012
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Next
Meeting
"The
Cat's Table,” by Michael Ondaatje.
In the early 1950s, an 11-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 be—with a ragtag
group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the
Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys
tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like
freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: One man talks
with them about jazz and women, another opens the door to the world of
literature. The narrator’s elusive, beautiful cousin Emily becomes his
confidante, allowing him to see himself “with a distant eye” for the
first time, and to feel the first stirring of desire. Another cat’s
table denizen, the shadowy Miss Lasqueti, is
perhaps more than what she seems. And very late every night, the boys
spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and his fate a galvanizing
mystery that will haunt them forever.
As the narrative moves between the decks and
holds of the ship and the boy’s adult years, it tells a spellbinding
story—by turns poignant and electrifying—about the magical, often
forbidden discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins
unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.
http://www.amazon.com/Cats-Table-Michael-Ondaatje/dp/0307700119/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323367259&sr=1-1
The
book is 288 pages.
When:
Monday, February 27, 2012
Time:
7:00 pm
Location:
To Be Announced to Registered Participants
Book
Nominations
If
you have a book, you would like to read for the next meeting, please
email it along with a description and any hyperlinked reviews to dcbookdiscussion@yahoo.com
before the end of the current month. Nominated books
will be voted on by the participants in the following month.
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