{"product_id":"the-last-samurai","title":"The Last Samurai","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' MARK HADDON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003ci\u003eIs\u003c\/i\u003e he a genius? A real-life child prodigy? He's grown up watching \u003ci\u003eSeven Samurai\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 496 pages | Published March 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63956676936029,"sku":"9781784707965","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-last-samurai","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}