{"product_id":"9781784707965-the-last-samurai","title":"The Last Samurai","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\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. Let loose on London, Ludo sets out on a secret quest to find the last samurai – the father he never knew.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450813002102,"sku":"9781784707965","price":9.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32408412.jpg?v=1760454009","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784707965-the-last-samurai","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}