Ondaatje Crafts Semi-Autobiographical Tale of Ocean...

Name: Ondaatje Crafts Semi-Autobiographical Tale of Ocean...
Uploaded: 2011-12-27T22:46:00Z
Duration: P362S
Description: Michael Ondaatje's new novel "The Cat's Table" is a shipboard story about a boy's travel's from Ceylon to England. Jeffrey Brown and Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," discuss the coming-of-age tale based in part on the writer's own past.

Clip: 12/27/2011 | 6m 2s

Michael Ondaatje's new novel "The Cat's Table" is a shipboard story about a boy's travel's from Ceylon to England. Jeffrey Brown and Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," discuss the coming-of-age tale based in part on the writer's own past.

Aired: 12/27/11

Rating: NR

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