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"The cat''s Table" refers to the table on a cruise ship that is is farthest from the captain's table, insinuating that the people at that table are the least important. Myna, as he is nicknamed, is the book's narrator. He is an 11 year old boy going abroad to meet his mother. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, Myna and his two friends tumble from one adventure to another. I was enthralled and delighted in reading of the boy's adventures and watching them grow. The narrative moves
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A novel quite hard to fit it into patterns. It left me with a big question: what was the thing that Ondaatje tried to demonstrate by writing it? The story is interesting and well told. I asked myself: does it lack conflict? No, but it has several of them, apparently minor ones. But after careful examination, all these conflicts seem to match one major human condition. Love, freedom, friendship, class stratification, human relationships, these are all themes in the various small conflicting situa
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