{"product_id":"the-last-samurai-by-helen-dewitt","title":"The Last Samurai: by Helen DeWitt","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' MARK HADDON\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eEleven-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. \u003ci\u003eIs\u003c\/i\u003e he a genius? A real-life child prodigy? He's grown up watching \u003ci\u003eSeven Samurai\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781784707965\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"DeWitt, Helen","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £5.90","offer_id":48012346065073,"sku":"SB-1784707961-C2","price":5.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1784707961.jpg?v=1791507531","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-last-samurai-by-helen-dewitt","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}