Ads · The last samurai book
Ad
related to: the last samurai bookFree Shipping Available. Buy The Last Samurai Book on ebay. Money Back Guarantee!
Search results
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.
- Helen DeWitt
- 530 pp
- 2000
- September 2000
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.
- (8.8K)
- Paperback
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.
- (565)
- Helen DeWitt
- $17
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
People also ask
Is the Last Samurai a good book?
Who wrote The Last Samurai?
Where can I buy the Last Samurai?
Can I read the Last Samurai on Kindle?
Apr 13, 2018 · The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt review – a boy’s search for his father. The dynamics between a single mother and her intellectually curious young son are vividly captured in this...
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 ...
- (942)
- Helen De Witt
May 31, 2016 · 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.
- Helen DeWitt
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...
