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Helen DeWitt The Last Samurai

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Vintage Publishing

UK

2018

Paperback

496

Standard

313976

978-1-78470-796-5

1-78470-796-1

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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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.

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