{"product_id":"9781784707965","title":"The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt","description":"\u003cp\u003e`Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful.a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD'A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATTEleven-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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helen DeWitt","offers":[{"title":"496 pages \/ 15\/03\/2018 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56970444407159,"sku":"9781784707965","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781784707965.jpg?v=1780998168","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781784707965","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}