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An edition of The Last Samurai (2000)

The Last Samurai

  • 3.5 (2 ratings) ·
  • 54 Want to read
  • 4 Have read

"Ludo, age six, is a prodigy. His mother, Sibylla, raises him alone and tries hard to keep his voracious intellect satisfied, while she struggles to make ends meet. With her exasperated guidance, he teaches himself Greek, so that he can read The Odyssey, before moving on to study Hebrew, Arabic, Inuit, and Japanese. And both Sibylla and Ludo share a passion for Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, which they watch repeatedly, absorbing its lessons of samurai virtue.

Soon Ludo embarks on a quest to find his father, and approaches seven men to test their mettle. Each of them - prominent, powerful, or flawed in his own way - has to rise to a unique challenge.".

"The Last Samurai is full of stories of remarkable exploits, snatches of Greek poetry, passages of Icelandic legend, and ingenious math problems. But it also has a rare emotional depth, as Ludo's search for a father, or even a man heroic enough to be his father, gradually reveals a new and unexpected dimension of love. And at the book's heart is the relationship between mother and son, which is moving and memorable in its fusion of solidarity, frustration, and tenderness."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Language
English
Pages
530

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Edition Notes

Published in
London
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3554.E92945 S48 2000, PS3554.E92945 S48 2000b

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 530 p. ;
Number of pages
530

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL19745640M
Internet Archive
lastsamurai0000dewi_m1j9
ISBN 10
0701169567
Library Thing
417
Goodreads
836525

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