The Last Samurai EPUB
by Helen DeWitt
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Helen DeWitt's 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was "destined to become a cult classic" (Miramax).
The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so "Why not just, 'destined to become a classic?'" (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise?Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand.
High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well.
J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo's shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa's masterpiece Seven Samurai.
But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn't know: his father's name.
At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew.
He'll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution.
He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.
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- Pages:576 pages
- Publisher:New Directions
- Publication Date:31/05/2016
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- ISBN:9780811225519
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:576 pages
- Publisher:New Directions
- Publication Date:31/05/2016
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- ISBN:9780811225519