Michael Ondaatje (2011 Event)

The hotly-anticipated novel Cats Cradle is without question
Michael Ondaatje's finest to date. Launched worldwide at this
event, recorded live at the 2011 Edinburgh International Book
Festival, he tells the story of a child and his journey from
Ceylon to England on an ocean liner in the 1950s. As the child
grows up into the realities of adult life, he looks back on his
voyage as a symbol of the floating dream of childhood. Hear the
man who won the 1992 Booker Prize for The English Patient, talk
about his book that's sure to be hailed as a modern classic.