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The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje. Reviewed by John Purcell

Difficult to explain, easy to read, The Cat’s Table is part memoir, part fiction. A delicious and sometimes intoxicating blend of reminiscence and storytelling. Ondaatje conjures up the exotic and the bizarre, the erotic and the romantic without obvious effort. Though published as fiction and avowed to be such by the author, on reading The Cat’s Table we immediately recognise parall... Read more

by | August 11, 2011