The Last Samurai

‘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. Let loose on London, Ludo sets out on a secret quest to find the last samurai – the father he never knew.

‘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. BYATT

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.

• | Author: Helen DeWitt
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2018
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781784707965
• | ISBN-10: 1784707961