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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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The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- The Last Samurai
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Helen DeWitt
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN10
- 1784707961
- ISBN13
- 9781784707965
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, American Literature, Great Britain, Japan, London, Mothers, Reading, Son, Samurais, Nerds
- Original title
- The last samurai
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- 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