The Last Samurai

Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else Ive ever read MARK HADDON 'Original...witty...playfula wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD 'A triumph a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATT Eleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father. Raised singlehandedly by his mother Sibylla, Ludos 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 isnt enough to satisfy the boys boundless curiosity. Is he a genius? A real-life child prodigy? Hes grown up watching Seven Samurai on a hypnotising loop his mothers 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 fathers name. Let loose on London, Ludo sets out on a secret quest to find the last samurai the father he never knew.