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The Last Samurai

`A triumph – a genuinely new story` A. S. Byatt`Destined to become a classic` Garth Risk Hallberg`The funniest book I`ve read in years` SpectatorEleven-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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