The Cat`s Table, Michael Ondaatje

Автор: Ondaatje, Michael
Название: Cat`s table
ISBN: 0099554429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099554424
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 1451.00 р.
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Описание: From the acclaimed author of The English Patient comes a stunningly beautiful novel about a boy's life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. 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...

Автор: Ondaatje, Michael
Название: Cat`s table, the
ISBN: 0224093614 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780224093613
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: n the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England – a ‘castle that was to cross the sea’. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly ‘Cat's Table’ with an eccentric group of grown-ups 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 become involved in the worlds and stories of the adults around them, tumbling from one adventure and delicious discovery to another, ‘bursting all over the place like freed mercury’. And at night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner – his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. As the narrative moves from the decks and holds of the ship and the boy’s adult years, it tells a spellbinding story about the difference between the magical openness of childhood and the burdens of earned understanding – about a life-long journey that began unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage, when all on board were ‘free of the realities of the earth’. With the ocean liner a brilliant microcosm for the floating dream of childhood, The Cat’s Table is a vivid, poignant and thrilling book, full of Ondaatje’s trademark set-pieces and breathtaking images: a story told with a child’s sense of wonder by a novelist at the very height of his powers.

Автор: Ondaatje M
Название: Collected Works of Billy the Kid
ISBN: 0330310429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330310420
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
Цена: 692.00 р.
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Описание: In this series of "left handed" poems, the award winning Canadian poeichael Ondaatje presents the life and crimes of Billy the Kid. The legend and the reality of this outlaw are mixed together into a kaleidoscope of poetry, prose, songs, photographs and eye witness accounts from the period.

Автор: Ondaatje M
Название: Anil`s Ghost
ISBN: 0375725911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375725913
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 735.00 р.
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Автор: Ondaatje, Michael
Название: In the skin of a lion
ISBN: 0679772669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679772668
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient.

256 pp.