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...
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