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Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centres on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning. "Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I’ve ever read." - Mark Haddon "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."Ask a set of writers and critics to select books for a new c

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Author

Helen Dewitt, Ernest Riera Arbussà, Franklin & Siegal Associates INC

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784707965

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

4.18 / 5 (160 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14