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The Last Samurai (2000) is the first novel by American writer Helen DeWitt. It follows a single mother and her young son, a child prodigy, who embarks on a quest to find his father.
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May 31, 2016 · Paperback – May 31, 2016. by Helen DeWitt (Author) 4.3 953 ratings. See all formats and editions. Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last.
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Sep 20, 2000 · 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.
Sep 20, 2000 · Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning.
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Apr 3, 2002 · The Last Samurai. Paperback – April 3, 2002. by Helen De Witt (Author) 4.3 942 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
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May 31, 2016 · 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...
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Feb 24, 2022 · 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.
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...
The Last Samurai (2000) by Helen DeWitt is a book with linguistic complexity, multilingualism, nonlinear narrative, literary and philosophical references, and intellectual exploration. It traces the journey of a child prodigy to find his biological father.
