The Last Samurai-9781784707965

The Last Samurai

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Author(s): DeWitt, Helen,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 15/03/2018,
Pagination: 496 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Vintage,
Published By: Vintage Publishing,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Dimensions: 199 x 134 x 31
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781784707965

‘Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I’ve ever read’ MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful…a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD'A triumph – a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATTEleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father. Raised singlehandedly by his mother Sibylla, Ludo’s been reading Greek, Arabic, Japanese and a little Hebrew since the age of four; but reading Homer in the original whilst riding the Circle Line on the London Underground isn’t enough to satisfy the boy’s boundless curiosity. Is he a genius? A real-life child prodigy? He’s grown up watching Seven Samurai on a hypnotising loop – his mother’s strategy to give him not one but seven male role models. And yet Ludo remains obsessed with the one thing his mother refuses to tell him: his real father’s name. Let loose on London, Ludo sets out on a secret quest to find the last samurai – the father he never knew.