The Last Samurai
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Vintage Publishing
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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.
Originally published in 2000 to international acclaim, *The Last Samurai* is a paean to the power of language and learning, dazzling, delighting and inspiring a legion of readers.
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Vintage Publishing
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Paperback / softback
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9781784707965
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