{"product_id":"9780307401427","title":"The Cat's Table","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 MACLEAN'S BESTSELLER • #1 GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER • GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK • \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK • LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cat's Table \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautiful novel from renouned poet and author, Michael Ondaatje.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early 1950s in Ceylon an eleven-year-old boy is put alone aboard a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the insignificant \"cat's table\"—as far from the Captain's table as can be—with two other lone boys and a small group of strange fellow passengers: one appears to be a shadowy figure from the British Secret Service; another a mysterious thief, another seems all too familiar with the dangerous ways of women and crime. On the long sea voyage across the Indian Ocean and through the Suez Canal, the three boys rush from one wild adventure and startling discovery to another: experiencing the first stirrings of desire, spying at night on a notorious shackled prisoner, moving easily between the decks and holds of the ship. As the secretive adult world is slowly revealed, they begin to realize that a drama is unfolding on board, and the prisoner's crime and fate will be a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them and link them forever.","brand":"Michael Ondaatje (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46052933894356,"sku":"9780307401427","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c1a7c997-61d2-4ecd-968f-7f99a4ab28be.jpg?v=1738709887","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780307401427","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}