| 词条 | The Cat's Table |
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| name = The Cat's Table | image = The Cats Table Ondaatje.jpg | caption = | author = Michael Ondaatje | title_orig = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = Bildungsroman | publisher = Jonathan Cape McClelland & Stewart Random House Knopf | pub_date = 25 August 2011 (UK) 30 August 2011 (Canada) 4 October 2011 (USA) | media_type = Print (hardcover & paperback), ebook, audiobook | pages = 304 | isbn = 978-0-224-09361-3 | oclc = | dewey = | congress = PR9199.3.O5 C38 2011 | preceded_by = Divisadero (2007) | followed_by = Warlight (2018) }} The Cat's Table is a novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje first published in 2011. It was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The novel is a coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy's journey on a large ship's three-week voyage. Ondaatje himself went on such a voyage in his childhood, from Sri Lanka to England.[1] SynopsisThe central character and narrator named Michael, an unaccompanied 11-year-old boy, boards an ocean liner, the Oronsay, in Colombo en route to England via the Suez canal and the Mediterranean. For meals on board Michael is seated at the "cat's table" (the one furthest from the Captain's table) with other boys Ramadhin and Cassius and other misfit characters. The book follows the adventures of Michael and these boys while they are aboard the Oronsay, and Michael's later perspective as an older man looking back on this boyhood voyage. Character List
ReceptionLiesl Schillinger for The New York Times, while noting Ondaatje's appended disclaimer that The Cat's Table is a work of fiction, stated, "So convincing is Ondaatje’s evocation of his narrator’s experience that the reader could easily mistake it for the author’s own".[2] Philip Hensher for The Telegraph was largely positive, writing, "Michael Ondaatje’s impressive new novel, containing dreams and fantasy between a ship’s flanks. It is, in the most etymological way, a wonderful novel: one full of wonders."[3] Adam Mars-Jones was less impressed, writing in his review in The Observer, "Perhaps The Cat's Table aspires to a … doubleness of texture and meaning, the yarn of adventure story backed with the deeper colours of adult experience, but on the level of craftsmanship it doesn't measure up."[4] Jess Row, writing for New York Magazine, describeds The Cat's Table as being unlike Ondaatje's earlier works, as it allows the reader to experience what's going on in the characters' heads, not strictly focusing on the setting of the world.[5] References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/28/michael-ondaatje-the-divided-man|title=Michael Ondaatje: The divided man|first=Robert|last=McCrum|date=27 August 2011|publisher=|via=The Guardian}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cat's Table}}{{2010s-bildungsroman-stub}}{{Canada-novel-stub}}2. ^{{cite news|last=Schillinger|first=Liesl|title=Michael Ondaatje’s Passage From Ceylon|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/the-cats-table-by-michael-ondaatje-book-review.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=11 December 2011|newspaper=The New York Times Sunday Book Review|date=14 October 2011}} 3. ^{{cite news|last=Hensher|first=Phillip|title=The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje: review. Philip Hensher admires The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje, a visionary retelling of an ocean voyage.|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8735345/The-Cats-Table-by-Michael-Ondaatje-review.html|accessdate=11 December 2011|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=5 September 2011}} 4. ^{{cite news|last=Mars-Jones|first=Adam|title=The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/25/cats-table-michael-ondaatje-review|accessdate=11 December 2011|newspaper=The Observer|date=25 September 2011}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/michael-ondaatje-2011-10/|title=Come Aboard|website=NYMag.com}} 6 : 2011 Canadian novels|Novels by Michael Ondaatje|Jonathan Cape books|Canadian bildungsromans|Novels set on ships|Fictional ships |
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