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Cat's Table

Name: Cat's Table
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780099554424
Price: 45.37 PLN
Availability: InStock

Autor: Michael Ondaatje

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Vintage Publishing

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What had there been before such a ship in my life? A dugout canoe on a river journey? A launch in Tr...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Michael Ondaatje

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2012

strony

384

EAN

9780099554424

ISBN

0099554429

Enbook ID

04476171

Wydawca

Vintage Publishing

Waga

276

Wymiary

129 x 198 x 24

Pełny opis

What had there been before such a ship in my life? A dugout canoe on a river journey? A launch in Trincomalee harbour? There were always fishing boats on our horizon. But I could never imagine the grandeur of this castle that was to cross the sea'. 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...