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The Cat’s Table

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The Cat’s Table (2011)—its title referencing the table farthest from the captain’s table on a cruise ship—chronicles a voyage from Sri Lanka to England in the 1950s from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy and his two comrades. In Warlight (2018) a teenage boy and…
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