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The Last Samurai

Helen DeWitt

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#3409 of 8,085 books · #1698 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2002).

Eleven-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.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781446424612
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Search for identity and fatherChild genius and unconventional upbringingFamily and belonging

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