The Last Samurai av Helen DeWitt

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<p><b>¿Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I¿ve ever read¿ MARK HADDON</b><br><b>''Original...witty...playful¿a wonderfully funny book'' JAMES WOOD</b><b><br>''A triumph ¿ a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form'' A. S. BYATT</b><br><br>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. <i>Is</i> he a genius? A real-life child prodigy? He¿s grown up watching <i>Seven Samurai</i> 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.</p>