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100 1 $aDeWitt, Helen$q(Helen Marsh)
245 14 $aThe last Samurai /$cHelen DeWitt.
260 $aLondon :$bChatto & Windus,$c2000.
300 $aviii, 530 pages ;$c24 cm
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520 $a"Moving, funny and startlingly original, The Last Samurai has been sold in fourteen countries and is destined to become a cult classic. 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. An intellectual tour-de-force, playful, multi-layered, but wonderfully readable, The Last Samurai is full of stories of remarkable exploits, tables of Japanese grammar, snatches of Greek poetry, passages of Icelandic legend, and ingenious math problems. But it also has a rare emotional depth, as the little boy'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 Sibylla and Ludo, which is moving and oddly memorable in its fusion of solidarity, frustration, and tenderness." -- Publisher.
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