The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt
544 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0786887001
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Language: English
Publish: April 3, 2002
21st CenturyAmericanClassicsContemporaryFictionHistorical FictionJapanLiterary FictionLiteratureNovels
A child prodigy with a talent for languages and an insatiable thirst for knowledge, Ludo shares with his single mother, Sibylla, an obsession with Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, absorbing its lessons in Samurai virtue, and embarks on a quest to find his father, approaching seven men to test their worthiness. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.