{"product_id":"the-last-samurai-helen-dewitt-9781784707965","title":"The Last Samurai","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 2000 to international acclaim, The Last Samurai is a paean to the power of language and learning - dazzling, delighting and inspiring a legion of readers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' MARK HADDON\n\u003cbr\u003e'Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD\n\u003cbr\u003e'A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEleven-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":"New","offer_id":48782827913459,"sku":"9781784707965","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781784707965.jpg?v=1775008457","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-last-samurai-helen-dewitt-9781784707965","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}